Naturally formed, narrow, typically navigable waterway that connects two larger bodies of water.
A bad or difficult situation or state of affairs.
A narrow channel of the sea joining two larger bodies of water.
1 About 17 million barrels of oil a day pass through the strait .
2 This monstrous suspension bridge spans the Bosphorus strait connecting Europe to Asia.
3 This is the broad outline of the situation across the Taiwan strait .
4 In a well-ordered society he'd be in a strait jacket right now.
5 The man was in a strait which could end only in anger.
6 The Sunda is the strait between the islands of Sumatra and Java.
7 I was the first to consider the possibility of bridging the strait .
8 To-day there was much ice both in the strait and at sea.
9 But even in that desperate strait the allies turned fiercely to bay.
10 We have passed some very large floes evidently frozen in the strait .
11 From the top, the remainder of the strait could be easily distinguished.
12 I brought you to this strait - the remedy is in your own hands.
13 The enemy has evidently assumed defensive measures along the strait of Niagara.
14 The setting sun drew itself a crimson path across the widening strait .
15 Apply to me at any time when you are in a strait .
16 From the strait they might turn their course to Salonica once more.
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