Meanings of sore strait in English

They are in a sore strait, but yet they are brave men.

But the minor poets, too, were in sore strait.

Alack, Master Garret, we are in a sore strait!

The detective was therefore in a sore strait.

The building up of the Church in her present sore strait was surely an end to override small scruples.

The President, Abraham Lincoln, had ordered a draft, and many young men in Missouri had found themselves in a sore strait.

Well, then, he fell into this sore strait, and it seemed as if all hope of proving his innocence was over.

She knew that she was in a sore strait; but hers was a spirit to rise rather than sink before peril and adversity.

I have already told his majesty how coolly and courageously you conducted yourself in that sore strait in which we were placed together.

Cromwell's army was in a sore strait, and would, they hoped, be shortly driven either to surrender or to fight under disadvantageous circumstances.

I know that we are going in aid of the Countess of Montford; but why she is in a sore strait I know not.

Yet was it not long ere Dermat was again in sore strait, for Finn followed him to Bruga, and with Finn came his old nurse.

We are in sore straits and a drowning man snatches at straws.

Without the elephants they would indeed find themselves in sore straits.

With no wise head to guide, the youths were soon in sore straits.

However, I took it, for I was really in sore straits.