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# How to pronounce "looking down on" in English

## Pronunciation & Phonetics

- **IPA**: `/lʌːkɪngdɒwnɒn/`
- **Syllable Breakdown**: **loo·kin·gdow·non**

## Real-Life Native Speaker Examples (15 Video Clips)

Listen to native speakers pronounce "looking down on" in real conversation:

### Example 1
> "looking down on anyone when you're saying these things."
- **Watch at 8:41**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txMaan4N404&t=521s)

### Example 2
> "controlled. The starting point for all these tasks is a rat that's been trained to stick its nose into the center port of a three-port box. So what you see is looking down on a box. The rat sticks its nose into the center port that breaks an LED beam that signals to a computer that ah the rat has entered the center port. And now we can program the computer to deliver whatever kind of stimuli we want. auditory. In fact, one of my colleagues uses it to present"
- **Watch at 3:26**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWeJ-QgmAo0&t=206s)

### Example 3
> "doing exponents oh right now there's getting back to private industry planet the company is you know flying cube sets and literally looking down on earth and orbiting or taking a picture if you will of Earth every day every 24 hours covering the entire Earth so terms of earth observations in terms of climate change in terms of our changing earth it's revolutionising because they're affordable we can put a whole bunch of"
- **Watch at 23:07**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fI6bYnRgSc&t=1387s)

### Example 4
> "who don't know New Orleans a pretty good view of of Bourbon Street of of the architecture around it so you have these elevated balconies people would be looking down on the street which is why we've had this uh pretty awful footage from the scene on social media in the last few hours um knowing New Orleans as I do and how busy that street becomes and especially so on a New Year's Eve I'm bound to ask why there aren't more substantial"
- **Watch at 4:31**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLND9SBrUC8&t=271s)

### Example 5
> "position and measured exactly and then you start to notice these things that are a bit bizarre see quite an interesting scene with a guy looking down on the woman as she's picking up the poles you only start to notice these things when you begin working with the photos this time we've come to a Motocross competition in Munich the night of the jumps offers the perfect Motif for Lan H Han's pictures combining"
- **Watch at 1:30**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HBn7TMWf7k&t=90s)

### Example 6
> "for meeting old friends or perhaps making new acquaintances, taking a break, or adding a holiday snap to your collection. Looking down on proceedings is a famous statue. The square was built during the reign of Philip"
- **Watch at 1:41**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uucSESetw_c&t=101s)

### Example 7
> "for meeting old friends or perhaps making new acquaintances, taking a break, or adding a holiday snap to your collection. Looking down on proceedings is a famous statue. The square was built during the reign of Philip"
- **Watch at 1:47**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfrgl7NjggU&t=107s)

### Example 8
*Accent: US*
> "looking down on them humourously, while the bearded mouth broke into a half-smile at the corners; saw the rippling muscles on the arm that lay"
- **Watch at 206:58**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AU3L62OomvQ&t=12418s)

### Example 9
*Accent: US*
> "looking down on the old man's bald head shining in the Sun and seeing by the expression on his face that the old man himself understood how untimely such"
- **Watch at 74:03**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4AaoynHZyp4&t=4443s)

### Example 10
*Accent: US*
> "panting looking down on the crowd it was growing Dusk and the face faces became"
- **Watch at 450:53**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=foNAQHGVx78&t=27053s)


## How to Pronounce "looking down on"

- **Syllables**: loo · kin · gdow · non
- **IPA**: `/lʌːkɪngdɒwnɒn/`
- **Listen for**: the stressed syllable in the clips above — notice how surrounding sounds blend in natural speech.

## Related Pronunciations

[looking](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/looking), [down](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/down)

## Frequently Asked Questions

### How do you pronounce “looking down on”?
“looking down on” is pronounced /lʌːkɪngdɒwnɒn/ (loo · kin · gdow · non). Listen to the native-speaker clips above to hear it in real conversation.

### How many syllables are in “looking down on”?
“looking down on” has 4 syllables: loo · kin · gdow · non.

### How can I hear “looking down on” used in real sentences?
This page has 15 real-world video examples of “looking down on” with synchronized subtitles. Use Previous / Next (or ← / → keys) to hear each one at the exact moment it is spoken.


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