How to pronounce shafts
Listen to shafts 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.
“shafts” in real sentences
86 clips in the index · 18 American · 20 British · 4 Australian. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
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power sharing between the shafts.
The Royal Institution · hear it here
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put in the elevator shafts.
NSF · hear it here
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So flooded mine shafts exist near us.
The Royal Society · hear it here
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You know, there's all the old mine shafts.
60 Minutes Australia · hear it here
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of shafts. Conversation gives you the stress, the vowel reduction and the speed that people actually use — and they differ between accents. YouTongue plays the surrounding sentence, so you hear the word in the rhythm it belongs to.