Route through a large body of water.
A lane at sea that is a regularly used route for vessels.
1 Fighting has flared in the city near a major sea lane for transporting oil.
2 Yemen sits on a strategic sea lane where some 3 million barrels of oil pass daily.
3 Because of where she is, the colony controls-or ,putanother way, Britain controls- a vital sea lane .
4 Russia, however, now controls Crimea's Kerch Strait, a narrow sea lane connecting the Azov and Black seas.
5 It's shockingly dangerous: this is the busiest sea lane in the world, more than 400 ships a day.
6 As the troop ship glided down the sea lane , the old man still watched it from the turtle-back.
7 Our merchant seamen, in addition, are carrying supplies to them and to our allies over every sea lane .
8 But it didn't take long for Somalis to figure out that you can stake out a sea lane just like you can a road.
9 With bad sailors or good sailors, the significant thing which had become a commonplace was that the Channel was a safely-guarded British sea lane .
10 This port sits close to the major Indian Ocean sea lanes .
11 The highway was in his eyes, the airways, the sea lanes .
12 Submarines are lying along the sea lanes in regular nests.
13 Blockade was more to the point than any attempt to patrol the sea lanes .
14 How stands my control of the southern sea lanes ?
15 The crackdown at the airport is taking a toll, so they're shifting to sea lanes .
16 Safeguarding international sea lanes is a key priority.
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