How to pronounce smears
Listen to smears 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.
“smears” in real sentences
99 clips in the index · 9 American · 50 British. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
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with it, they laundered the smears anyway.
Oxford Union · hear it here
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Doing what he always does, resorting to nonsense smears.
The Scottish Parliament · hear it here
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In the past, I have done some work with Pap smears.
NIH · hear it here
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We have already seen Russia deploy smears, innuendos and disinformation against our Oxford-AstraZeneca
UK Parliament · hear it here
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of smears. 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.