How to pronounce slate
Listen to slate 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.
“slate” in real sentences
594 clips in the index · 102 American · 117 British · 11 Australian · 1 New Zealand. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
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This is the slate, the Welsh slate.
The Royal Institution · hear it here
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children are a blank slate.
Dept of Justice · hear it here
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slate wiped clean every PY.
Dept of Labor · hear it here
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Slate if someone keeps their uh their record clean for 10 years their slate will be
We Are Libertarians · hear it here
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of slate. 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.