How to pronounce spans
Listen to spans 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.
“spans” in real sentences
844 clips in the index · 298 American · 132 British · 61 Australian. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
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four bridge spans each of those bridge spans is 160 feet long
NTSB · hear it here
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Organic spans are critical.
USDA · hear it here
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This spans four presidents.
60 Minutes Australia · hear it here
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plan that Uh spans the length of time this plan spans is to set
The Scottish Parliament · hear it here
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of spans. 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.