How to pronounce totem
Listen to totem 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.
“totem” in real sentences
95 clips in the index · 10 American · 1 British · 22 Australian · 1 New Zealand. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
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This is our law totem, our meat totem, our marriage totem.
Australian Human Rights Commission · hear it here
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walking sort of totem of sexual frustration.
Penguin Books UK · hear it here
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<b>So I've protected someone's totem.</b> <b>Someone will have the totem as the cricket.</b>
DCCEEW · hear it here
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the totem pole in priorities for getting lunar samples.
Smithsonian Air & Space · hear it here
Why real speech
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