How to pronounce shrew
Listen to shrew 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.
“shrew” in real sentences
91 clips in the index · 12 American · 1 British · 4 Australian · 8 New Zealand. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
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They par boiled a dead shrew.
NIST · hear it here
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There is the spiny mouse and the elephant shrew.
Big Think · hear it here
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What do you think is the spirituality of Dwight Shrew?
The 92nd Street Y · hear it here
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of mouse or shrew or some kind of little rodent.
The Royal Institution · hear it here
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of shrew. 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.