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Example sentences for: strait

How can you use “strait” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

From this vantage point the city could control not only the ships that passed through the strait on the important trade route between the Black Sea and the Mediterranean, but also the overland traffic travelling from Europe into Asia Minor, which used the narrow strait as a crossing point.
Waves of Siberian hunters had crossed a land bridge over the Bering Strait in pursuit of mammoth and bison.
He then drew the line between the two through the deep Lombok Strait separating Bali and Lombok.
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.
The road commands sweeping views of the coast and countryside, and on a clear day the eye is inevitably drawn to the twin peaks flanking the Strait of Gibraltar — the Rock of Gibraltar on the right, and Morocco’s Jebel Musa on the left.