How to pronounce yards
Listen to yards 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.
“yards” in real sentences
1000+ clips in the index · 298 American · 422 British · 12 Australian. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
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Using the Pythagorean Theorem, 30 yards times 30 yards added to 40 yards times 40 yards
NSF · hear it here
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yards, yards that do defense work, yards that do small fairies, etc.
The Scottish Parliament · hear it here
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50 yards is a lot of yards.
60 Minutes · hear it here
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75 yards, and the new world record is 98 yards.
Smithsonian Air & Space · hear it here
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of yards. 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.