How to pronounce shaft
Listen to shaft in real sentences, spoken by real people in public video clips that play here, on YouTongue. No dictionary recording — the word as it is actually used.
“shaft” in real sentences
378 clips in the index · 75 American · 39 British · 27 Australian. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
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8483 for transmission shaft bearings.
Census Bureau · hear it here
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than cranking some shaft manually.
NSF · hear it here
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again we try to reduce the diameter of the shaft the shaft does moving up and
Bangladesh Academy of Sciences · hear it here
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shaft and that was the culprit the slight Bend in the shaft uh when the oil
The Royal Institution · hear it here
Why real speech
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