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Example sentences for: strait

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Batubolong temple stands perched on a rock — a good lookout point to watch the sunset over the Lombok Strait.
The island nestles snugly in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, separated from New Brunswick and Nova Scotia by the Northumberland Strait.
In a similar vein, several of the engineers have braved the elements by appearing at our daily all-hands gatherings on the flight deck without coats; only to be outdone by a petty officer who wore shorts through the frigid Strait of Magellan!
Saying it was unclear what he hoped to accomplish by ending his one China policy, the paper commented in an editorial that what he had done was "weaken the constructive ambiguity which has marked relations across the Taiwan Strait for two decades or more, and which has kept them essentially peaceful."
He then drew the line between the two through the deep Lombok Strait separating Bali and Lombok.