How to pronounce thrift
Listen to thrift 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.
“thrift” in real sentences
99 clips in the index · 44 American · 3 British. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
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The Office of Thrift Supervision looked at primarily at the thrift of the small banks that
Federal Reserve · hear it here
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The clothes they wear are often thrift store finds.
60 Minutes · hear it here
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find them at thrift stores or at garage sales
US Fish & Wildlife Service · hear it here
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And while she was at the thrift store she got COVID.
The Diary Of A CEO · hear it here
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of thrift. 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.