How to pronounce spines
Listen to spines 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.
“spines” in real sentences
220 clips in the index · 35 American · 20 British. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
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other dinosaur at all they have these greatly elongated neural spines so again those giant spines
The Royal Institution · hear it here
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spines are orientated in the the way our necks sit on our spines and that changed
The Royal Society · hear it here
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sending chills down all our spines.
The Scottish Parliament · hear it here
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Its spines are highly modified leaves.
TED-Ed · hear it here
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of spines. 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.