How to pronounce silk
Listen to silk 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.
“silk” in real sentences
996 clips in the index · 112 American · 22 British · 8 Australian. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
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silk cravat and a silk dressing robe.
60 Minutes Australia · hear it here
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ways to produce silk the production of enough silk to make these things particularly spider silk
The Royal Institution · hear it here
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Silk Road City preexisted.
British Library · hear it here
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like that Silk I think lighter than silk and like better than any metal
MooLer · hear it here
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of silk. 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.