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Sentence Examples The Persians were taken in and sent their navy into the narrow strait between Athens and the island of Salamis. No less a navigator than Capt. James Cook failed to find the strait 180 years later, in fact. He heard a sharp click and in an instant Kitty loaded her cricket gun and was aiming strait at Darien. You either enter by a strait gate onto a narrow way or you go with the crowd through the wide gate and the broad way that leadeth to destruction. The two countries are linked by a causeway over a narrow strait which separates the two sides. The East River, in fact a tidal strait, is littered with smaller islands like Roosevelt, Randall's, Rikers, and Ward. Before actually coming strait to my house I had to drop by the school infirmary to get my hand taken care of and go in search for Sam's clothes. Negotiations about the precise wording of the speech are intense, with messages and messengers traversing the strait on a near-daily basis. In purely commercial terms, passage through the strait would cut time off sailings from the west coast of North Korea. I went strait towards the back door, around the swimming hole, and towards the hedge maze. They glided over the narrow strait of turbulent ocean water that made the island look like it had been cut in half with a steak knife. The rock of Gibraltar stands 450m high, dominating the narrow strait into the Mediterranean from the Atlantic Ocean. If his victory stands, the immediate prospect for reducing tension across the strait appears remote. The weathered speedboats line up along three small piers every morning, right next to large police boats that patrol the strait. From this haunted ridge the road curves down to Tiquina, where the lake narrows to a strait less than a kilometer wide. Then Low decided to explore the strait between Kanghwa Island and the Han River, informing the local officials that he was doing so. Incensed with rage, he commands that his wife should be carried to strait prison until they heard further of his pleasure. This was shipped through Taganrog, a port on the Sea of Azov which communicates through a narrow strait with the Black Sea. The White Sea is a marginal sea of the Arctic Ocean connected with the Barents Sea by a shallow strait. Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it. Show More Sentences As the strait shares a border with Malaysia, Malaysian authorities have stepped up patrols and had captured two groups of pirates operating along the straits. Istanbul straddles the Bosphorus strait, the stretch of water which creates a natural north-south divide in the city and joins the Sea of Marmara to the Black Sea. Perhaps the deep-sea corals thrive better on the other side of the strait? On economic issues, the two parties agreed to cooperate toward pursuing the realization of direct shipping links, agricultural exchanges and a common market across the strait. I know I did state the bleeding obvious while saying that, but how am I to know if you still know a cape from a bay from an isthmus from a strait? How long will it take, and at what cost, to reopen the strait and keep it open? The bullets sang softly in their strait prison of steel and brass. The harbor was circular with a long narrow strait leading into the sea. Trails on the bluffs offer sights of Benicia and the strait. Eleven young women, aged sixteen to twenty, were escorted to police cells in their blood-soaked night shirts with their bodies bound in strait jackets. Moroccan authorities said last week that the suspects planned to sail a dinghy loaded with explosives from Morocco into the strait to attack the vessels. Armed with a crayfishing spear, they allegedly demanded and took the catch from a group of professional fishermen who worked out of Cooktown, outside the strait. Countries such as the United States argue that the increasingly navigable waterway should be treated as an international strait, not Canadian waters. What of the other states that buy and sell the Gulf oil that moves through the strait? The strait is about 750 km long with an average width of 125 km, varying from 70 km at the eastern entrance to 240 km at Deception Bay. He managed to sail through the Kara Gates, the strait between the islands of Vaygach and Novaya Zemlya in the Arctic Ocean. His strait served as inspiration for Ferdinand Magellan's expedition to reach the Moluccas by a westward route. Torres then took a route close to the New Guinea coast to navigate the 150 kilometre strait that now bears his name. The strait links the Coral Sea to the east with the Arafura Sea and Gulf of Carpentaria in the west. The largest islands in the strait include Prince of Wales Island, Horn Island, Moa, and Badu Island. Show More Sentences The strait between Tierra del Fuego and Isla de los Estados was named the Le Maire Strait in his honor, though not without controversy. His exploit was forgotten for almost a hundred years and Bering is usually given credit for discovering the strait that bears his name. Australia is chocker with beaches strait from paradise, and Terrigal is a beach holiday mecca? I'm gobsmacked. In 1648, Semyon Dezhnyov probably passed through the strait, but his report did not reach Europe. On August 8 a scout plane reported impassable ice in the strait, and Litke turned north, heading to Herald Island. I then took a strait That gave myself, and some few more, receipt 'Twixt Scylla and Charybdis. The Diomede Islands and Fairway Rock are located in the midst of the strait. Slay not that my musk-deer fawnling, Hunter! Prithee, have thou shame Of her night-black eye nor bind her With thy lasso long and strait. Like mad-dog in the hottest day Byron runs snapping strait away, And those unlucky fellows judge ill Who go without a whip or cudgel. The Pentland Firth is not an inlet, but the strait that separates the Orkney Isles from the mainland. The southern boundary of the strait is a line joining the Mull of Galloway and Ballyquintin Point. The Falkland Islands take their name from the Falkland Sound, a strait separating the archipelago's two main islands. Strong named the strait in honour of Anthony Cary, 5th Viscount of Falkland, the Treasurer of the Navy who sponsored their journey. The Harlem River, another tidal strait between the East and Hudson Rivers, separates most of Manhattan from the Bronx. The sheltered strait between Barrow and Walney Island was an ideal location for the shipyard. The lough is almost totally enclosed by the Ards Peninsula and is linked to the Irish Sea by a long narrow channel or strait. The area had earlier been an island, when a strait at Vust had been open prior to the 12th century. The strait is the busiest international seaway in the world, used by over 400 commercial vessels daily. A narrow deep channel along the middle of the strait was the bed of the Rhine in the last Ice Age. For this reason the strait has had a heavy international seatraffic for centuries. Show More Sentences The seals mass annually near the Denmark strait around July, at the time of their moulting periods, to mate. The Red Sea is higher than the Eastern Mediterranean, so the canal serves as a tidal strait that pours Red Sea water into the Mediterranean. There are ferries that operate between Spain and Morocco across the strait, as well as between Spain and Ceuta and Gibraltar to Tangier. Through the strait, water generally flows more or less continually in both an eastward and a westward direction. The Mediterranean outflow water layer can be traced for thousands of kilometres west of the strait, before completely losing its identity. The cold East Greenland Current passes through the strait and carries icebergs south into the North Atlantic. However, the strait was blocked by young ice at this point in the season, and not navigable to ships. Magellan and his crew were the first Europeans to reach Tierra del Fuego just east of the Pacific side of the strait. The connection to the ocean is in the south through the Bab el Mandeb strait and the Gulf of Aden. The Mongols easily took over Tsushima Island about halfway across the strait and then Iki Island closer to Kyushu. The strait is the most important natural passage between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. The first Chilean settlement was Fuerte Bulnes, situated in a forested zone on the north side of the strait. Argentina had previously claimed all of the strait, or at least the eastern third of it. In 1840 the Pacific Steam Navigation Company was the first to use steamships for commercial traffic in the strait. The northwestern portion of the strait is connected with other sheltered waterways via the Smyth Channel. The western part of the strait leads northwest from the northern end of the Magdalena Channel to the strait's Pacific entrance. Panetta told troops in Texas that the United States would not tolerate Iran's closing of the strait. Ferdinand Magellan reached it on 21 October 1520 and discovered a strait, now called the Strait of Magellan. It marks the north edge of the Drake Passage, the strait between South America and Antarctica. Following the southern coast of the strait on 2 August, the ship entered Hudson Bay. Show More Sentences As the fleet passed the strait, warplanes were deployed from the flattop to guard the surrounding area, they said. Yemen shares a long border with the world's top oil exporter Saudi Arabia and flanks busy shipping lanes such as those in the strategic Bab El Mandeb strait west of Aden. Finally, the approach to Gothenburg through the Skagerrak strait between Norway and Denmark is strewn with small islands and rocks, so we will need to be fully alert. And neither can they be trusted not to hold siege to the Bab El Mandeb strait that not only connects the Red Sea with the Indian Ocean but is also a link to Suez Canal. Unauthorized travelers who arrive on shore after crossing the strait, even those with visas, may be arrested, imprisoned briefly, fined, deported and banned from future visas. Torres Strait is mentioned in Jules Verne's Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea as a dangerous strait where the submarine, the Nautilus, is briefly stranded. In 1770 Cook claimed the whole of eastern Australia for the British Crown, and sailed through the strait after proceeding up the eastern coast of the continent. This strait connects the Kara Sea and the Barents Sea in northern Russia. This strait lies between Baffin Island and Nunavik, with its eastern entrance marked by Cape Chidley in Quebec and Resolution Island off Baffin Island. As the strait provides a well protected inland water way for safe navigation, sheltered from rough weather and high seas, ships sail through the strait. Two narrow channels connect the strait with Seno Otway and Seno Skyring. Sailing ships, however, partly because of variable winds and currents in the strait, generally preferred the Drake Passage, as they had more room to maneuver there. In Tierra del Fuego, across the strait from Punta Arenas, the village of Porvenir emerged during the Tierra del Fuego gold rush in the late 19th century. On October 21, 1520, his expedition crossed the strait that bears his name in the southern tip of South America, opening the Pacific to European exploration. He came to dominate the maritime route at the Malaccan strait. Several days later they discovered a passage now known as the Strait of Magellan located in the southern tip of South America and sailed through the strait. Magellan's expedition was the first to circumnavigate the globe and the first to navigate the strait in South America connecting the Atlantic and the Pacific oceans. Afterwards, they continued to sail south along South America's east coast, looking for the strait that Magellan believed would lead to the Spice Islands. With a water depth of between one and two thousand meters the strait is substantially shallower than the Labrador Sea to the south or Baffin Bay to the north. The Norwegian island of Jan Mayen lies northeast of the strait. Show More Sentences Some studies have proposed the possibility of erecting tidal power generating stations within the strait, to be powered from the predictable current at the strait. The Camarinal Sill is located at the far western end of the strait. The Strait of Gibraltar is a narrow strait that connects the Atlantic Ocean to the Mediterranean Sea and separates Gibraltar and Spain in Europe from Morocco in Africa. However, this strait was not navigable to ships at that time. In 1772, Samuel Hearne travelled overland northwest from Hudson Bay to the Arctic Ocean, thereby proving that there was no strait connecting Hudson Bay to the Pacific Ocean. Ulloa concluded that the Gulf of California was the southernmost section of a strait supposedly linking the Pacific with the Gulf of Saint Lawrence. The strait is believed to have been created by the erosion of a land bridge that linked the Weald in Great Britain to the Boulonnais in the Pas de Calais. The entire strait is within the territorial waters of France and the United Kingdom, but a right of transit passage under the UNCLOS exists allowing for unrestricted shipping. The drive hunt in the Little Belt strait is the best documented example. A strait in the Persian Gulf separates Qatar from the nearby island country of Bahrain, as well as sharing maritime borders with the United Arab Emirates and Iran. Sheikh Talal Al Khalid Al Sabah, chief executive officer of Kuwait Oil Tankers Co, said tankers were operating in a safe and usual manner through the Bab el Mandeb strait. During Francis stay in the strait crew members discovered that an infusion made of the bark of Drimys winteri could be used as remedy against scurvy. Once in, through traffic to the Baltic passes through another strait, the Fehmarn Belt, into the Bay of Mecklenburg, which opens out into the Baltic Sea. Gibraltar, which is still a British overseas territory, became a major naval base and allowed Great Britain to control the strait connecting the Atlantic to the Mediterranean. Barry continued to shout obscenities and to flail about in a strait jacket, finally succumbing to the effects of intravenously administered tranquilizers. The saltwater fish is believed to be an Xanthic Undulate Trigger that was recently collected in Lombok Strait, a strait connecting the Java Sea to the Indian Ocean. Examples from Classical Literature It carried the Holyhead high-road across the strait, and was built by Telford. The Race of Alderney is the strait between the coast of France and this island. The Troglodytica extended along the western side of the Arabian Gulf, from about the 19th degree of latitude to beyond the strait. Which of my ancestors had begirt me with an impassable barrier in this horrible strait? Innumerable islets and reefs, fanged like ravenous wolves, sentinel every shallow, lurk in every strait. There might be such a strait as that through which the galatea was gliding. I hope I would have done at least as much for any man in such a strait, and most of all for you, sir. At least, my father is doing his mighty best to make things so hard and strait. The western opening of the strait could be seen, but it was entirely closed. The sailors did not believe there was any strait, and they begged Magellan to sail for home. It is in this very latitude where we now were, that geographers have placed the pretended strait of Juan de Fuca. The line is distinctly drawn between the islands of Lombok and Baly, which are divided only by the narrow strait of fifteen miles. The vapory masses above the strait may cause the pictures to be surrounded by a colored line. Doubtless, had orchis been in the country, he would have aided him in this strait. In every strait of his life he went to her for comfort or advice. He is no more in a strait betwixt two, or unwitting what he shall choose. Alone in his canoe, he paddled off to a distant strait, which he knew the ship must pass through when she quitted the island. Seeing him, I felt that I was in a dangerous strait indeed, and I kept my eyes upon him. Bass Strait, strait between Australia and Tasmania, about 150 m. broad. Bali is separated from Lombok by a strait not more than 15 m. wide. Show More Sentences The most important of these was at Michilimackinac, situated at the strait of the same name, which connects Lakes Huron and Michigan. In 2012, an attempt to swim the 30-mile Little Minch strait, which separates the Highlands and the Inner Hebrides, failed due to bad weather. They expected to capture him on his return through the strait of Magellan. And is the strait longas long as to the end of the millpond? To say and strait unsay, pretending first Wise to flie pain, professing next the Spie, Argues no Leader, but a lyar trac't, SATAN, and couldst thou faithful add? This is done, chiefly by suppressing, or at least keeping a strait hand, upon the devouring trades of usury, ingrossing great pasturages, and the like. It appeared as if Webb, with his army, which lay slumbering on the banks of the Hudson, had utterly forgotten the strait to which his countrymen were reduced. 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. The strait is only thirteen miles wide in its narrowest part. Just now it's the fashion to be hideous, to make your head look like a scrubbing brush, wear a strait jacket, orange gloves, and clumping square-toed boots. No, sir, thank Heaven we are not yet in such a strait that it can be said Munro is too much pressed to discharge the little domestic duties of his own family. I mistrust these quiet moods of of his, so I have given the attendant a hint to look closely after him, and to have a strait waistcoat ready in case of need. My soul, from this strait prison-house set free, As o'er the Stygian lake it floats along, Thy praises singing still shall hold its way, And make the waters of oblivion stay. The Nautilus, having passed the outer belt of rocks by a narrow strait, found itself among breakers where the sea was from thirty to forty fathoms deep. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of strait? Words that rhyme with strait What is the past tense of strait? What is the plural of strait? What is the adverb for strait? What is the adjective for strait? What is the noun for strait? Translations for strait Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words Strains strains straining strainers strainer strained relationship Strait straiten straitened straitening straitjacket straitjacketed 6-letter Words Starting With s st str stra strai