How to use in-sentence of “strait”:
+ Her mother is a Torres Strait Islander.
+ In the Dover Strait the water is about 30 meters deep.
+ Across the Bohai SeaBohai Strait to its north is Liaodong Peninsula, and across the Yellow Sea to the east is Korean Peninsula.
+ There is evidence of people living on the Torres Strait islands for at least 2,500 years.
+ A strait is a narrow channel of water between two land areas.
+ To the north is the Strait of Wetar, to the south is the Timor Sea.
+ European settlement led to the displacement of Aboriginal communities and the arrival of Torres Strait Islanders on the mainland.
+ The islands in the east of the strait were made by submarine volcanos which grew above the surface of the ocean.
Example sentences of “strait”:
+ Adam Air Flight 574 was a scheduled domestic passenger flight operated by Adam Air between the Indonesian cities of Surabaya that crashed into the Makassar Strait near Polewali in Sulawesi on 1 January 2007.
+ In 1919, Singapore was chosen because of its strategic location at the end of the Strait of Malacca.
+ He never sailed the passage, because sailing the Strait of Magellan was less dangerous.
+ Adam Air Flight 574 was a scheduled domestic passenger flight operated by Adam Air between the Indonesian cities of Surabaya that crashed into the Makassar Strait near Polewali in Sulawesi on 1 January 2007.
+ In 1919, Singapore was chosen because of its strategic location at the end of the Strait of Malacca.
+ He never sailed the passage, because sailing the Strait of Magellan was less dangerous.
+ Davis Strait is a northern arm of the Labrador Sea.
+ It connects to the Atlantic by Davis Strait and the Labrador Sea.
+ The indigenous people of the Torres Strait have a distinct culture which has slight variants on the different islands where they live.
+ In 2007, one of her paintings, titled “Kiwarr”, was chosen as a finalist for the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award.
+ Jules Verne wrote about Torres Strait in his novel, “Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea”.
+ The Dardanelles is the narrow strait in northwestern Turkey connecting the Aegean Sea to the Sea of Marmara.
+ The date coincides with the anniversary of Abbas I of Persia’s successful military campaign when the Portuguese navy was driven out of the Strait of Hormuz in the Capture of Hormuz.
+ The largest islands in the Torres Strait include Prince of Wales Island Prince of Wales Island, Horn Island, Moa, and Badu Island.
+ George Harvey Strait is an AmericansAmerican country music singer, actor, and music producer.
More in-sentence examples of “strait”:
+ The Taiwan Strait or Formosa Strait is a 180km-wide strait between mainland China and the island of Taiwan.
+ When sea levels were low during the last glacial maximum, the Arafura Shelf, the Gulf of Carpentaria and Torres Strait formed a large flat land bridge.
+ The city is a port on the river Elbląg, which flows into the Vistula Lagoon about 10km to the north, thus giving the city access to the Baltic Sea via the Russian-controlled Strait of Baltiysk.
+ Marbella is near the Mediterranean Sea, between Málaga and the Strait of Gibraltar, in the foothills of the Sierra Blanca.
+ The strait was discovered by explorer Henry Hudson in the year 1609.
+ A language of the Malays, it is spoken by 290 million people across the Strait of Malacca, including the coasts of the Malay Peninsula of Malaysia and the eastern coast of Sumatra in Indonesia and has been established as a native language of part of western coastal Sarawak and West Kalimantan in Borneo.
+ His first exhibition was in 1997, for the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award in Darwin.
+ The strait is named after Ferdinand Magellan.
+ To the northeast, McClure Strait separates the island from Prince Patrick Island and Melville Island.
+ Vlorë’s western and southern edges are the shorelines of the Strait of Otranto.
+ The sea between Dover and the FranceFrench port of Calais is called the Strait of Dover.
+ Red-necked wallabies are found along the coast and forests of eastern Australia, from Rockhampton, Queensland to the South Australian border; in Tasmania and on many of the Bass Strait islands.
+ According to maps on the show, Qumar is in southern Iran, directly across the important Strait of Hormuz.
+ The Strait of Bonifacio and divides the Tyrrhenian Sea from the western Mediterranean Sea.
+ It lies on the North African coast at the western entrance to the Strait of Gibraltar where the Mediterranean meets the Atlantic Ocean off Cape Spartel.
+ Strait is referred to as the “King of Country” and critics call Strait a living legend.
+ The island of Perim divides the strait into two channels.
+ The Guardafui Channel also known as the Socotra Passage is a strait between Puntland and Socotra.
+ Bass Strait is a sea strait separating Tasmania from the south of the Australian mainland, specifically the state of Victoria.
+ A strait in the Persian Gulf separates Qatar from the nearby island country of Bahrain, as well as sharing maritime borders with the United Arab Emirates and Iran.
+ The Strait of Malacca is a marine strait.
+ Observations on the coasts of Van Diemen’s Land, on Bass’s Strait and its islands, and on parts of the coasts of New South Wales; intended to accompany the charts of the late discoveries in those countries.
+ The Strait 102 KSTI is an FM radio station playing country music in the area.
+ It is connected to the Pacific Ocean by the Bering Strait and to the Atlantic Ocean through the Greenland Sea and Labrador Sea.
+ The fort was built by the Tokugawa shogunate to protect the Tsugaru Strait against a possible invasion by the Russian fleet.
+ The Taiwan Strait or Formosa Strait is a 180km-wide strait between mainland China and the island of Taiwan.
+ When sea levels were low during the last glacial maximum, the Arafura Shelf, the Gulf of Carpentaria and Torres Strait formed a large flat land bridge.
+ The Yucatán Channel is a strait between Mexico and Cuba.
+ So, someone who controls a strait can control the shipping.
+ The strait is around 27 meters deep, and is around 1 km wide.
+ It is next to the Denmark Strait and faces the east coast of Greenland.
+ It is next to the South Australian border in the west, and the Bass Strait coast in the south.
+ After the Second World War, he was trained as a fighter pilot and fought in the Korean War and the Second Taiwan Strait Crisis.
+ The Mackinac Bridge passes over a strait of water that connects two Great Lakes, Lake Michigan.
+ There are also two Torres Strait Islander communities on the nearby coast of the mainland.
+ On 29 June 2008, the commander of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard, Ali Mohammed Safari, said that if Iran were attacked by Israel or the United States, it would close off the Strait of Hormuz.
+ In 1770 Cook sailed through the strait after sailing up the east coast of Australia.
+ On the south shore of Vancouver is the Fraser River, which flows west into the Strait of Georgia.
+ The competition is open to all adult Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists.
+ Across the Bering Strait was the United States.
+ It borders Greenland to the west, the Svalbard archipelago to the east, Fram Strait and the Arctic Ocean to the north, and the Norwegian Sea and Iceland to the south.
+ From 1976 to 1978, Walter also served as a member of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Arts Board.
+ By the time they reached the passage between the Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific Ocean, afterwards named the Strait of Magellan, one more ship had turned back.
+ Depending on usage, the southern shores of the strait may mean the western coast of Tsushima or it may mean the western coasts of Kyūshū and Honshū.
+ In the north the date line turns to the east through the Bering Strait and then west past the Aleutian Islands in order to keep Alaska and Russia on opposite sides of the line.
+ The Korea Strait and it is also used generally to describe the wider ocean area between Korea and the island of Kyushu.
+ During World War II, the Battle of the Denmark Strait took place on 24 May 1941.
+ From 1413–1415, he went to Sri Lanka, Bengal, India, Strait of HormuzHormuz, Aden.
+ The South China Sea runs from Singapore to the Taiwan Strait The sea has an area of around 3,500,000km².
+ The Badung Strait separates the island from Bali while the Lombok Strait separates it from Lombok.
