How to pronounce wakes
Listen to wakes 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.
“wakes” in real sentences
575 clips in the index · 51 American · 18 British · 7 Australian. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
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Signal wakes up a waiter and broadcast wakes up all of the waiters.
John Kubiatowicz · hear it here
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Then the family wakes up.
The Diary Of A CEO · hear it here
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Nightmare and he wakes up and then he goes to sleep again and again he wakes
Intelligence Squared · hear it here
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can see different colors you see currents U you can see ship wakes or boat wakes
NASA · hear it here
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of wakes. 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.