How to pronounce startle
Listen to startle 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.
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“startle” in real sentences
108 clips in the index · 66 American. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
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That is the startle factor.
NTSB · hear it here
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More likely though, your startle reaction will be based on sight.
TED-Ed · hear it here
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and was likely intended to provoke startle reactions from patients watching.
US National Archives · hear it here
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Let's take a minute for safety to talk about the human startle response.
FAA · hear it here
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of startle. 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.