shortest route
Example Sentences
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Greenland's location also puts it on the shortest route for missiles between Russia and the United States.
From Barron's • Dec. 22, 2025
True high-speed rail requires hundreds of miles of “sealed corridor” free of grade-level crossings, inaccessible to trespassers who often are trying to get from A to B by the shortest route.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 5, 2025
As a result they don’t always fly by the shortest route, but "airspace modernisation", as it is known, will allow for straighter paths to destinations.
From BBC • Nov. 28, 2024
To measure longer distances, you can draw a thread around a globe, such that the shortest route is a curve—after all, Earth is not flat.
From Scientific American • Aug. 17, 2023
“It looked like this would be the shortest route over to that path on that hill, but I don’t know now,” Sairy said.
From "Ruby Holler" by Sharon Creech
