How to pronounce sustains
Listen to sustains 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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“sustains” in real sentences
255 clips in the index · 53 American · 89 British · 10 Australian. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
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that sustains their mother.
TED-Ed · hear it here
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Demand sustains criminal gangs.
The Scottish Parliament · hear it here
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that sustains collective life
Data Power · hear it here
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Soft tissue that primarily sustains tension to something that primarily sustains compression, such as bone, and
NIH · hear it here
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of sustains. 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.