How to pronounce snipe
Listen to snipe 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.
“snipe” in real sentences
52 clips in the index · 8 American · 16 British. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
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grey partridges, snipe and reed buntings.
Intelligence Squared · hear it here
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Over winter, we will see substantial snipe populations.
The Scottish Parliament · hear it here
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are so many uh introductory geometry puzzles that you can nerd snipe
The Royal Institution · hear it here
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here safely and legally safely and legally mr speaker they cop and snipe from
UK Parliament · hear it here
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of snipe. 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.