How to Use strait in a Sentence

strait

1 of 2 noun

• The economy is in dire straits.
• Her campaign is in desperate straits.
• The company is in desperate financial straits.
• The Bosporus looked calm as the Gas Grouper, a 570-foot-long tanker, slipped into the strait.
  — Washington Post, 9 Jan. 2022
• The strait connects the Persian Gulf to the Gulf of Oman, and the open ocean beyond.
  — Missy Ryan, Washington Post, 3 Aug. 2023
• That doesn’t mean the standoff over the Taiwan strait is over.
  — Doyle McManus, Los Angeles Times, 22 Jan. 2024
• The strait is only 20 miles wide and is bordered by Djibouti and Eritrea to the west and Yemen to the east.
  — Laris Karklis, Washington Post, 16 Dec. 2023
• The state of war with the mainland was constant; sometimes the two sides shelled each other across the strait.
  — Dexter Filkins, The New Yorker, 14 Nov. 2022
• The only thing left of that craft, in the bottom of a strait in the Solomon Islands, was the torpedo tube.
  — Frederick Dreier, Outside Online, 30 Mar. 2022
• Once the Persian fleet was massed inside the strait, their quarry turned and attacked, while the rest of the Greek fleet moved in from the flanks.
  — John Psaropoulos, WSJ, 3 Sep. 2020
• The threat from across the 110-mile-wide strait to the west of the foundries menaces Taiwan every second of every day.
  — Virginia Heffernan, WIRED, 21 Mar. 2023
• As the moon rose above the water, the Rafael Peralta motored toward the strait.
  — Dexter Filkins, The New Yorker, 14 Nov. 2023
• That floating, fleeting bridge through the strait of Messina, the first and maybe the only, holds a lesson.
  — Gisela Salim-Peyer, The Atlantic, 11 Dec. 2023
• But the project moved forward regardless of the even more dire straits of the property.
  — Steven Lindsey, Dallas News, 21 May 2023
• The threat from across the strait, and the threat from anyone who might be even slightly allied with that threat, is ever-present.
  — Virginia Heffernan, WIRED, 21 Mar. 2023
• Those Marines and sailors could provide the backbone for any armed guard mission in the strait, through which 20% of the world’s crude oil passes.
  — Lolita C. Baldor, Anchorage Daily News, 3 Aug. 2023
• Every year, enough cargo passes through the strait to account for some ten per cent of the world’s trade.
  — The New Yorker, 4 Oct. 2021
• The first train will supposedly cross the Messina strait in 2032.
  — Gisela Salim-Peyer, The Atlantic, 11 Dec. 2023
• And what desperate straits or last-ditch hopes led to such an extreme step?
  — Brian Handwerk, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Feb. 2023
• In contrast, across the strait in Taiwan, the government has rolled out a plan for the island to be bilingual by 2030.
  — Nectar Gan, CNN, 21 Sep. 2023
• Outside, Óli's son harvested hay with a neighbor's tractor, and the sea grew rough in the strait.
  — Sarah Moss, Travel + Leisure, 20 Feb. 2022
• US Navy ships have been transiting the strait roughly monthly, to the anger of Beijing.
  — Reuters, CNN, 23 Nov. 2021
• The city enjoyed trade from both land and sea due to its excellent location on the strait.
  — Joshua Learn, Discover Magazine, 2 Nov. 2023
• Russian reinforcements would need to traverse the strait to reach the Black Sea.
  — Jared Malsin, WSJ, 14 Sep. 2022
• The week Krach was in Taipei, China sent a total of 37 war planes, including bombers and fighter jets, across the strait.
  — Elisha Maldonado, Washington Examiner, 5 Nov. 2020
• Those Marines and sailors could provide the backbone for any armed guard mission in the strait, through which 20 percent of the world’s crude oil passes.
  — Lolita C. Baldor and Jon Gambrell, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Aug. 2023
• Turkey controls the straits, which permit access from the Black Sea to the Mediterranean and points beyond.
  — Trevor Hughes, USA TODAY, 19 Apr. 2023
• Iranian officials in the past have threatened to close the strait.
  — Jon Gambrell, Star Tribune, 6 Dec. 2020
• But almost all iPhones are assembled just across the strait in China.
  — Chris Miller, The Atlantic, 28 Dec. 2022
• Russia quickly reopened the strait and eventually returned the ships, but the moves laid bare Ukraine’s naval impotence.
  — Mark Cancian, Foreign Affairs, 8 Feb. 2024

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strait

2 of 2 adjective

• Randy had a close friend, Robert, a more strait-laced gay man who was in his twenties and a reverend.
  — Michael Waters, The New Yorker, 28 Feb. 2021
• As a judicial law clerk for the city, Alicia was worried that she’d be paired with a strait-laced lawyer.
  — Washington Post, 26 Aug. 2021
• As the air and missile war rages, the invasion force would begin its cross-strait assault.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 21 Oct. 2021
• Together, the weapons provide Taiwan with the means to deter or disrupt a cross-strait attack.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 29 Oct. 2020
• Our lives in Taiwan do not revolve around cross-strait relations.
  — Clarissa Wei, CNN, 2 Aug. 2022
• What would set them apart from their strait-laced European counterparts now?
  — Hazlitt, 20 Dec. 2022
• He was widely known there as a studious, generally strait-laced young man.
  — New York Times, 5 Mar. 2021
• China, meanwhile, has sent record numbers of war planes near Taiwan, as cross-strait tensions soared to their highest in recent decades.
  — Alex Rogers, CNN, 20 July 2022
• That makes the prospect of negotiations to tamp down cross-strait tensions more unlikely.
  — Michael Schuman, The Atlantic, 10 Oct. 2020
• Taiwan's defense minister has warned that cross-strait relations are at their worst in 40 years.
  — Clay Chandler and grady McGregor, Fortune, 16 Nov. 2021
• And with it, the number of cross-strait extraditions have also plummeted.
  — Wayne Chang and Nectar Gan, CNN, 26 Nov. 2021
• As a teenager in a fundamentalist church, Corinne idolizes strait-laced Enoch Miller, the eldest son of the people who brought her family into the fold.
  — Becky Meloan, Washington Post, 16 July 2022
• One of the world's most important sea lanes, millions of barrels of oil and petroleum products pass through the strait daily, according to GlobalSecurity.org.
  — Brad Lendon and Steve George, CNN, 13 July 2017
• The cars from Kenosha came with reclining seats, not for driving but for sleeping, and this seemed to give reclining seats a bad name forever in the strait-laced American heartland.
  — David E. Davis Jr., Car and Driver, 12 Jan. 2023
• For decades an uneasy status quo governed cross-strait relations.
  — Brad Lendon, CNN, 2 Sep. 2020
• The exercises, which come closer to Taiwan than in previous cross-strait crises, have heightened fears of a military clash.
  — Lily Kuo, Washington Post, 5 Aug. 2022
• Notice, too, how Xi blames Taiwan for cross-strait tensions even as his air force violates Taiwanese airspace with impunity.
  — Matthew Continetti, National Review, 20 Nov. 2021
• That assessment echoed the appraisals of several current and former co-workers, who said in interviews with The Times that the inspector was quiet, low-key and strait-laced.
  — Alan Feuer, New York Times, 5 Nov. 2020
• This is Elle and Darcy too, a glittery girl and her perfectly imperfect, strait-laced yet vulnerable match.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 4 Dec. 2020
• Song recently took over as head of TAO, the Chinese government’s department for handling cross-strait affairs.
  — Bloomberg News, Bloomberg.com, 10 Feb. 2023
• Subsequent episodes, including one in which the most strait-laced teacher got looped on alcohol and ran wild and naked through the halls like a demented leprechaun, maintained the madcap standard.
  — James Wolcott, HWD, 18 Jan. 2017
• Sand—a key ingredient in the glass, concrete, mortars, and plasters used in many construction projects—has emerged as a small but contentious flashpoint in cross-strait relations.
  — Nicolas Rivero, Quartz, 4 Aug. 2022
• India will have to gird for the coming border war with an expansionist China, and Taiwan will prepare for the inevitable cross-strait invasion.
  — Jerry Hendrix, National Review, 18 Oct. 2017
• While other performers revel in the inherent humor of their roles, Laura Carns is entrusted with the more strait-laced persona of Alice Sycamore.
  — Bob Kostanczuk, Post-Tribune, 6 Sep. 2017
• Aso, asked about Japan's stance on the cross-strait issue at a news conference on Tuesday, said any contingency over Taiwan should be resolved through dialogue.
  — NBC News, 16 July 2020
• However, few analysts see an imminent threat of cross-strait conflict within this third term.
  — Rhoda Kwan, NBC News, 16 Oct. 2022
• In local elections, cross-strait tensions take a backseat to more immediate concerns.
  — Stephanie Yang, Los Angeles Times, 25 Nov. 2022
• The visit marks a significant turning point in Sino-U.S. relations and the cross-strait strategic environment.
  — Nathaniel Taplin, WSJ, 6 Aug. 2022
• Cross-strait tensions are at their highest since the 1996 Taiwanese presidential elections, when China conducted a series of missile tests just before the polls.
  — Time Staff, Time, 4 Jan. 2023
• The runway on Mayun Island allows whoever controls it to project power into the strait and easily launch airstrikes into mainland Yemen, convulsed by a yearslong bloody war.
  — Jon Gambrell, Star Tribune, 26 May 2021

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024