How to pronounce sleepy
Listen to sleepy 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.
“sleepy” in real sentences
504 clips in the index · 114 American · 18 British · 4 Australian. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
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He's in a sleepy, sleepy backwater.
British Library · hear it here
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be sleepy during the day.
CDC · hear it here
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you sleepy after Thanksgiving dinner.
The Diary Of A CEO · hear it here
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Kamala and Joe, Sleepy Joe, but --
The White House · hear it here
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of sleepy. 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.