How to pronounce sleeping in American English
“sleeping” pronunciation by American speakers
Listen to sleeping the way American speakers say it — in real sentences from public video clips that play here, on YouTongue.
Hear “sleeping” in: all accents · British English (586 clips)
“sleeping” in real sentences — American speakers
960 clips in the index. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
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lot and feeding and sleeping and eating and feeding and sleeping.
US Fish & Wildlife Service
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Once they start sleeping...
The Obama White House
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homelessness who are sleeping outside.
State Department
Words that sound like “sleeping”
Words one sound away from sleeping — the pairs that are easy to mix up. Listen to them back to back.
Other forms of “sleeping”
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of sleeping. 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.