How to pronounce skates
Listen to skates 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.
“skates” in real sentences
128 clips in the index · 14 American · 36 British. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
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Another example is ice skates.
NSF · hear it here
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but she skates for ramps and you can tell who she skates with by her trick
The Diary Of A CEO · hear it here
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within weeks donned skates and pads.
The Scottish Parliament · hear it here
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Putting on ice skates is almost impossible.
60 Minutes Australia · hear it here
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of skates. 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.