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Example sentences for: strait
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The fleet of 700 Persian ships then engaged the much smaller Athenian naval force under the command of Themistocles in the Strait of Salamis, but Xerxes was in for a surprise.
We are all very excited that the weather is turning much warmer; it's a far cry from the howling gale we encountered as we exited the Strait of Magellan nearly two weeks ago.
She traversed seemingly unconquerable bodies of water, including the Bering Strait, to demonstrate the potential for harmony between hostile neighbors.
The larger branch, Eskimo, has a major division near Bering Strait.
Almost every paper has a different angle: the Journal notes that the announcement will frustrate efforts to prevent North Korea from testing its own missiles; the NYT says the announcement was done in tandem with a harsh public critique of the United States for selling military technology to Taiwan; the Post puts the missile test in the ninth paragraph of a larger story on increased sorties over the Taiwan Strait by Chinese and Taiwanese military jets.