Example sentences for: strait

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

  • Small bands of Asiatic hunters migrated across the Bering Strait land bridge before 12,000 b.c. and gradually spread southwards through the Americas.

  • She traversed seemingly unconquerable bodies of water, including the Bering Strait, to demonstrate the potential for harmony between hostile neighbors.

  • Waves of Siberian hunters had crossed a land bridge over the Bering Strait in pursuit of mammoth and bison.

  • The larger branch, Eskimo, has a major division near Bering Strait.

  • 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.


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