Sample Sentences for
strait
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strait as in:  Strait of Hormuz

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The Strait of Gibraltar connects the Atlantic Ocean to the Mediterranean Sea.
strait = a narrow water way that joins two larger bodies of water
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    Chile's Strait of Magellan is the most important natural passage between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.
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    Sunlight glinted off the water as we chugged up the Strait of Georgia.  (source)
    Strait = a narrow channel of the sea joining two larger bodies of water
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    If he sold just one of his sheep, he'd have enough to get to the other shore of the strait.  (source)
    strait = narrow water passage
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    First in rank was Commander Arthur Maher, who had survived the sinking of his ship, the Houston, in Indonesia's Sunda Strait.  (source)
    Strait = narrow water passage
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    Passed Gibraltar and out through Straits.  (source)
    Straits = narrow water passages
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    The mesa was like a ship becalmed in a strait of lion-coloured dust.  (source)
    strait = narrow water passage
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    Mate says we must be past Straits of Dover, as in a moment of fog lifting he saw North Foreland, just as he heard the man cry out.  (source)
    Straits = narrow water passages
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    Alone in his canoe, he paddled off to a distant strait, which he knew the ship must pass through when she quitted the island.  (source)
    strait = narrow water passage
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    Africa was only a few hours from Tarifa; one had only to cross the narrow straits by boat.  (source)
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    But from what we hear, the strait is now guarded.  (source)
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    BLACKETT STRAIT, SOLOMON ISLANDS 2:00 A.M.  (source)
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    The Turk's rotund body was now resting at the bottom of the Sea of Marmara, feeding the blue manna crabs that migrated in through the Bosporus Strait.  (source)
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    The ship drew on and had safely passed the strait, which some volcanic shock has made between the Calasareigne and Jaros islands; had doubled Pomegue, and approached the harbor under topsails, jib, and spanker, but so slowly and sedately that the idlers, with that instinct which is the forerunner of evil, asked one another what misfortune could have happened on board.  (source)
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strait as in:  put her in a tough strait

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    Coming down from the summit, I passed other climbers who were clearly in dire straits.
    straits = a bad situation
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    Once a vagabond on his own canal, I have received good turns from one of these Canallers; I thank him heartily; would fain be not ungrateful; but it is often one of the prime redeeming qualities of your man of violence, that at times he has as stiff an arm to back a poor stranger in a strait, as to plunder a wealthy one.  (source)
    strait = difficult situation
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    But my father has always been a romantic rather than a businessman and in the meantime he and Hidayatullah were in such desperate straits that they ran out of credit with the local shopkeeper and could not even buy tea or sugar.  (source)
    straits = a bad or difficult situation
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    Oh, John, my friend, we are in awful straits.  (source)
    straits = a bad or difficult situation
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    Seeing him, I felt that I was in a dangerous strait indeed, and I kept my eyes upon him.  (source)
    strait = bad or difficult situation
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    To have others see royalty in such straits—it set a bad precedent.†  (source)
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    You know, too, that I can't go without putting things in such a strait as you wouldn't get out of I can't tell when.  (source)
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    The entrance to the straits was still a quarter mile ahead.†  (source)
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    The allusion served as a timely reminder to Darnay that this disagreeable companion had, of his own free will, assisted him in the strait of the day.  (source)
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    Three hidden keys open three secret gates Wherein the errant will be tested for worthy traits And those with the skill to survive these straits Will reach The End where the prize awaits†  (source)
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    Miss Bray has wealthy friends who would coin their very hearts to save her in such a strait as this.  (source)
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    You watch as teenagers find themselves in dire straits, sometimes of their own making and sometimes not.†  (source)
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    Still England has been some weeks in the dismal strait of having no pilot (as was well observed by Sir Leicester Dedlock) to weather the storm; and the marvellous part of the matter is that England has not appeared to care very much about it, but has gone on eating and drinking and marrying and giving in marriage as the old world did in the days before the flood.  (source)
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