How to pronounce tugs
Listen to tugs 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.
“tugs” in real sentences
62 clips in the index · 20 American · 7 British · 1 Australian. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
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supported by local tugs Freyja, Thor and Odin.
The Scottish Parliament · hear it here
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There were also three oceangoing tugs that the company hired to be out there.
NTSB · hear it here
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want our young people refer to as tugs or gangsters or scumbags we wanted to change
Australian Human Rights Commission · hear it here
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has a huge effect on their insides this gravity sort of tugs and pulls at the
The Royal Institution · hear it here
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of tugs. 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.