How to pronounce shears
Listen to shears 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.
“shears” in real sentences
54 clips in the index · 13 American · 12 British. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
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we used the um the the the scissors the shears rather see these are garden shears
The Royal Institution · hear it here
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spheres without the need um for pruning shears.
The Royal Society · hear it here
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cut it with her shears, marking the moment of death.
TED-Ed · hear it here
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rock paper cutlass okay so what was it even paper shears
Mark Kilfoil · hear it here
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of shears. 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.