How to pronounce swept in American English
“swept” pronunciation by American speakers
Listen to swept the way American speakers say it — in real sentences from public video clips that play here, on YouTongue.
Hear “swept” in: all accents · British English (137 clips)
“swept” in real sentences — American speakers
322 clips in the index. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
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Eclipse mania swept the nation.
Smithsonian Air & Space
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have swept across the nation.
The Obama White House
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independent journalists who have been swept up.
State Department
Words that sound like “swept”
Words one sound away from swept — the pairs that are easy to mix up. Listen to them back to back.
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of swept. 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.