free passage
Example Sentences
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Giving ships free passage through the Gulf waterway is "essential to ease cost-of-living pressures on British families", Miliband said as he headed to Washington.
From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2026
It aims to establish a mechanism to impose fees for the free passage of the strait, nominally to pay for security and environmental costs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 30, 2026
But he was cool over a proposed British-French military mission to ensure free passage in the critical shipping bottleneck, saying the US did not need "much help".
From Barron's ● Jun. 16, 2026
Charging a toll was "against the whole idea of international laws and free passage through international waterways", he said.
From BBC ● Apr. 10, 2026
The Germans had demanded free passage through neutral Belgium in order to attack France.
From "The War to End All Wars: World War I" by Russell Freedman
