Pronunciation of speed

Pronunciation of the English word speed.

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Pronounce speed in English


speed in a sentence

# Sentence  
1. "'Tom lives only an hour away,' that's what Mary said at school today. What does that mean, Mum?" Mum thought for a moment. "Well," she began, as she usually began her answers, "a distance can be expressed as a unit of time when you've established a constant rate of speed – it might be the average speed of a pedestrian, a bicycle or a car. But without knowing the context, the most natural choice would be the speed of light in vacuum, according to which–" Mum did the mental arithmetic, Johnny meanwhile scribbling everything down on a notepad, "Tom lives about a billion kilometres away, possibly on an asteroid somewhere near Saturn."
2. Everybody was obeying the speed limit, so I knew there was likely a speed trap ahead.
3. The driver of an oncoming car flashed his lights at Tom as a warning that there was a mobile speed camera up ahead. Tom, who had been speeding, immediately slowed down and passed the camera at just under the speed limit.
4. A speed bump is used for a forced speed reduction of the car.
5. The download speed is twice as fast as the upload speed on this network.
6. Your car's speedometer tells you the car's instantaneous speed, not its average speed.
7. Don't get me started on average speed cameras. Why don't they shell out some cash for really good speed cameras?
8. More haste, less speed.
9. We should observe the speed limit.
10. Science and technology have come to pervade every aspect of our lives and, as a result, society is changing at a speed which is quite unprecedented.

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