How to pronounce straw
Listen to straw 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.
“straw” in real sentences
851 clips in the index · 174 American · 103 British · 9 Australian. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
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straw man, straw man two was sort of enforced by sync.
MIT 6.824: Distributed Systems · hear it here
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That was the final straw.
60 Minutes Australia · hear it here
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what's called straw manning.
The 92nd Street Y · hear it here
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going and plenty of straw.
Intelligence Squared · hear it here
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of straw. 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.