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