How to pronounce straws
Listen to straws 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.
“straws” in real sentences
221 clips in the index · 35 American · 56 British · 5 Australian. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
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- Holly, why do you use paper straws instead of plastic straws?
Smithsonian Air & Space · hear it here
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Some draw the shortest straws.
Oxford Union · hear it here
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supermarkets and drinking straws you know drinking straws and plastic bags obviously contribute to a lot
DCCEEW · hear it here
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use 500 million straws per day?
CrashCourse · hear it here
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of straws. 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.