How to pronounce sweep in American English
“sweep” pronunciation by American speakers
Listen to sweep the way American speakers say it — in real sentences from public video clips that play here, on YouTongue.
Hear “sweep” in: all accents · British English (158 clips)
“sweep” in real sentences — American speakers
350 clips in the index. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
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sweep through the village."
US Forest Service
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just sweep it under the rug.
Dept of Justice
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I sweep the wings back, bleed off.
Smithsonian Air & Space
Words that sound like “sweep”
Words one sound away from sweep — the pairs that are easy to mix up. Listen to them back to back.
Other forms of “sweep”
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of sweep. 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.