Clips need JavaScript: the YouTube player has to be driven from the page. The sentences
with sieve below are plain text.
How to pronounce sieve in American English
“sieve” pronunciation by American speakers
Listen to sieve the way American speakers say it — in real sentences from public video clips that play here, on YouTongue.
Hear “sieve” in: all accents
“sieve” in real sentences — American speakers
41 clips in the index. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
-
You can see that sometimes we have the sieve, and by sieve we mean we want
USGS
-
It leaked like a sieve because it was stone and concrete.
The White House
-
arm that we use to sieve and portion the soil sample.
NASA
Words that sound like “sieve”
Words one sound away from sieve — the pairs that are easy to mix up. Listen to them back to back.
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of sieve. 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.