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Meanings of narrow straits in English
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Usage of narrow straits in English
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Unsuspecting, they galloped at full speed right into one of these narrowstraits.
2
The islands multiplied; the boat wound in and out among them in narrowstraits.
3
So those narrowstraits are called 'Hellespont,' after her; and they bear that name until this day.
4
Early that afternoon we turned into the narrowstraits which lie between the islands of Afognak and Shuyak.
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Africa was only a few hours from Tarifa; one had only to cross the narrowstraits by boat.
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They are a critical part of global energy security due to the high volume of oil traded through their narrowstraits.
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Now we are nearing the Hardanger Fjord; we pass through the narrowstraits known as the Löksund, and we enter the fjord.
8
The wind, which blows uninterruptedly, has swept bare the forbidding coast; it drives through the narrowstraits and lays waste both sides.
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Imagine the view that greeted some stout dinosaurian Cortez as he gazed across the long, narrowstraits at the slowly departing 'West Gondwana'.
10
As he was gazing the Indian touched his shoulder and pointed to a high hill on the opposite side of the narrowstraits.
11
Never, since England was England, had such a sight been seen as now revealed itself in those narrowstraits between Dover and Calais.
12
Four small fertile islands, separated from one another by narrowstraits, lie across the opening of this gulf, making it a safe harbour.
13
The immortal dead, British, Australians, New Zealanders, who fell in the great adventure of the narrowstraits are not forgotten in the hour of triumph.
14
On the northerly side there were narrowstraits and inlets, doubtless connecting the lake with others to the northwest that were hidden by the growth.
15
Across the narrowstraits, just farther than the eye can see, was the one hope of escape, Japan, where doubtless occasional ships of Europe came.
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And if so, it may have first happened in another geological age, before the sea burst through the narrowStraits of Dover.