strait
Example Sentences
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"I just feel that if somebody is really in desperate straits, I'm willing to give somebody a bed," she explains.
From BBC
Some people are in more dire straits financially than others, of course, but everyone needs support from time to time.
From MarketWatch
The strait can be hostile without any of that.
In 2017 Beijing completed its first overseas naval base, in Djibouti, which sits on the vital Bab al-Mandab strait connecting the Red Sea to the Gulf of Aden and Indian Ocean.
But as temperatures rise, icebergs and thick chunks of centuries-old ice are released into open water, turning shipping straits into minefields.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
