How to Use strait in a Sentence

strait

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