How to pronounce swathe
Listen to swathe 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.
“swathe” in real sentences
90 clips in the index · 44 British · 1 Australian · 1 New Zealand. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
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swathe of costly nuclear projects.
The Scottish Parliament · hear it here
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cast over huge swathe of the globe.
Oxford Union · hear it here
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going to lose a whole swathe of industry
MyData Global · hear it here
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Michael Marra rightly sets out a swathe of concerns.
The Scottish Parliament · hear it here
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of swathe. 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.