How to pronounce sly
Listen to sly 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.
“sly” in real sentences
170 clips in the index · 19 American · 38 British · 1 Australian. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
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He called himself Sly, and that's just how sly it is.
Smithsonian Air & Space · hear it here
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Writing on the sly, writing.
British Library · hear it here
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that's the question yeah much more Sly
Intelligence Squared · hear it here
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Different departments down at SCOE and at Sly Park.
sacramentocoe · hear it here
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of sly. 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.