How to pronounce shakes
Listen to shakes 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.
“shakes” in real sentences
384 clips in the index · 66 American · 49 British · 12 Australian. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
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And shakes his head doubtfully.
Interdisciplinary Studies Institute UMass Amherst · hear it here
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atom in the Sun shakes my eye electron shakes eight minutes later because of a direct
The Royal Institution · hear it here
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The Bard's work the shakes
Mark Pallen · hear it here
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man shakes a woman's hand
Dept of Justice · hear it here
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of shakes. 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.