How to pronounce straits
Listen to straits 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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“straits” in real sentences
582 clips in the index · 80 American · 64 British · 11 Australian. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
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businesses in dire straits.
The Scottish Parliament · hear it here
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through the Straits of Hormuz.
The Atlantic · hear it here
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of Malacca or the Straits, you know, or you know, or indeed the Taiwan Straits?
Channel 4 News · hear it here
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And Russia has continued that presence recently in the Kerch Straits, or outside the Kerch Straits.
State Department · hear it here
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of straits. 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.