How to pronounce waves
Listen to waves in real sentences, spoken by real people, in the original YouTube videos. No dictionary recording — the word as it is actually used.
“waves” in real sentences
843 clips in the index · 702 American · 141 British. Clips come from parliamentary and government channels under open licences.
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in terms of brain waves or nerve waves—and the external computer.
NSF · watch from 1:59 · hear it here
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Waves are another option.
USGS · watch from 56:24 · hear it here
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QUESTION: -- or radio waves?
State Department · watch from 33:49 · hear it here
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Instructor: Sound is waves.
NIH · watch from 0:15 · hear it here
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of waves. 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.