--- title: "How to pronounce \"bread line\" in English | SayItVid" description: "Learn how to say \"bread line\" correctly. Watch real-life video examples and master your English pronunciation with SayItVid." image: "https://img.youtube.com/vi/1Ze8xH_h_H4/hqdefault.jpg" url: "https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/bread-line" --- # How to pronounce "bread line" in English ## Pronunciation & Phonetics - **IPA**: `/ˈbɹɛdlaɪn/` - **Syllable Breakdown**: **bread·line** - **Stress**: **BREAD** — say this syllable louder and longer - **Native Audio**: [Listen](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/1/13/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-breadline.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-breadline.wav.mp3) ## Meaning & Usage ### NOUN - A line of people waiting to receive food from a charity. - *Example*: "I do not think anyone of us can walk by a breadline and see even the most unkempt and raggedy man in the line without saying to himself, "There but for the grace of God."" - The lowest income level at which one's most basic necessities of survival are met; poverty line or subsistence level. - *Example*: "Every day brings new worries about falling below the breadline." ### Example Sentences - "I do not think anyone of us can walk by a breadline and see even the most unkempt and raggedy man in the line without saying to himself, "There but for the grace of God."" - "Every day brings new worries about falling below the breadline." - "who live on the bread line though the rise in wheat could well mean no meat at" ## Real-Life Native Speaker Examples (6 Video Clips) Listen to native speakers pronounce "bread line" in real conversation: ### Example 1 *Accent: US* > "on a historical basis these premium turkeys are being prepared for customers that can afford the increased cost for the 1 billion or so people in the world who live on the bread line though the rise in wheat could well mean no meat at all Olivia Sterns Bloomberg chelsford England" - **Watch at 1:56**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Ze8xH_h_H4&t=116s) ### Example 2 > "go from their jobs as domestic cleaners with no pay yes governments all over the world have plans to help people on the bread line but it's not getting to some fast enough and there aren't always food banks to fill the gap it can be a choice between respecting the lockdown or trying to survive we" - **Watch at 1:17**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUxwg-U-ros&t=77s) ### Example 3 > "privatizing and putting people out of work, that are, for example, an EBRD in in Egypt is cutting food subsidies. That's the first thing they've done, which means you're putting lots of people on the bread line below the bread line. So, if we stopped interfering and intervening in these countries, and by we, I really mean our political elite. I don't mean actually ordinary people." - **Watch at 2:22**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3CuyPUhAcI&t=142s) ### Example 4 > "clarify just to clarify, Dominic, you you're telling the country here on this program that the Trussell Trust who deal with uh with with poverty uh told you personally that the problem with food banks wasn't people who are on the bread line, but people are having cash flow problems. I'm dying to hear from them when they hear that you've said that. Can you just wait that what they do is they keep data that they update quarterly and then annually on the" - **Watch at 0:53**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xK-8n-daMmE&t=53s) ### Example 5 > "It's absolutely emblematic. It's one of my favorite slides of the Great Depression-- the bread line at the same time as the, no way like the" - **Watch at 31:09**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQuHSQXxsjM&t=1869s) ### Example 6 > "through to this business yet. A lot of people that have lost their jobs at the moment have received redundancy payouts. So, they're not what we'd call desperate or on the bread line yet. Maybe in the next 6 to 8 months, as that money starts to run out, we will see an upturn or a marked difference in our levels of business." - **Watch at 8:19**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yt5Ea8BU_hQ&t=499s) ## How to Pronounce "bread line" - **Syllables**: bread · line - **Stress**: BREAD — say this syllable louder and longer - **IPA**: `/ˈbɹɛdlaɪn/` - **Listen for**: the stressed /BREAD/ in the clips above — notice how surrounding sounds blend in natural speech. ## Related Pronunciations [bread](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/bread), [line](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/line) ## Frequently Asked Questions ### How do you pronounce “bread line”? “bread line” is pronounced /ˈbɹɛdlaɪn/ (bread · line). Listen to the native-speaker clips above to hear it in real conversation. ### How many syllables are in “bread line”? “bread line” has 2 syllables: bread · line. ### Where is the stress in “bread line”? The primary stress in “bread line” is on “BREAD”. Listen for that stressed syllable in the clips above. ### What does “bread line” mean? A line of people waiting to receive food from a charity. ### How can I hear “bread line” used in real sentences? This page has 6 real-world video examples of “bread line” with synchronized subtitles. 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