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
American efforts to secure free passage through the Strait of Hormuz also continue a long-established support for freedom of the seas.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 26, 2026
Under international maritime law, you have free passage to go through the Strait of Hormuz, but that is now being tested.
From Barron's ● Apr. 22, 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
