Antonym: broad. Similar words: straitened, dire straits, trait, traitor, portrait, strain, restrain, straight. Meaning: [streɪt] n. 1. a narrow channel of the sea joining two larger bodies of water 2. a bad or difficult situation or state of affairs. adj. strict and severe.
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151. This was followed March 8 at the Strait of Gibraltar when another such incident occurred.
152. A city of northern Kyushu, Japan, on the channel connecting the Inland Sea with the Korea Strait.
153. A city of southwest British Columbia, Canada, on Vancouver Island and the Strait of Georgia northwest of Vancouver. Population, 5,370.
154. The Torres Strait, between Australia and Papua New Guinea, is infested with sharks and the area is regularly fished by both licensed and illegal fishing vessels, many from Asia.
155. A framed satellite image of the Bering Strait that separates Alaska from Russia like a thread hangs from his office wall.
156. A city of southwest South Korea on Korea Strait north-northeast of Pusan. It is an industrial center.
157. At the same time, warm Pacific Ocean water is pulsing through the Bering Strait into the Arctic basin,(www.Sentencedict.com) helping melt a large area of sea ice between Alaska and eastern Siberia.
158. It is our solemn duty and obligation to defend the peaceful status quoin the Taiwan Strait.
159. A cargo ship plies the Strait of Georgia off Vancouver, British Columbia.
160. There are impressive views of the Strait of Gibraltar and Morocco.
161. Under the condition of drastic competition in transportation market the railway freight station appeared so strait.
162. We will not make UN entry a precondition for cross - strait rapprochement.
163. Its modern distribution suggests that Japanese sailors were the first people to reach the Americas, millennia before Siberians wandered across the Bering Strait.
164. Montgomery slipped two divisions across the Strait of Messina one night against no resistance.
165. Imagine if a Chinese naval battle group sailed off New York's Long Island, into the Florida Strait off Cuba, or in the Gulf of Mexico?
166. A city of southeast Panay, Philippines, on Iloilo Strait, an inlet of the Sulu Sea. Iloilo is a major port noted for its delicate, handwoven fabrics. Population, 244, 827.
167. The Strait of Dover is pretty clear as is Paris, the City of Lights. A little fog over the western part of England and London.
168. This ship sails through the Strait of Gibraltar, where the water is often rough.
169. Likewise, a study published in January 2010 concluded that, over the past 100, 000 years, rising and falling ocean levels alternately opened and closed the Bering Strait.
170. The management of design and construction of the knowledge platform are the key points for the most pending issue to be improved along the implementation of labor division in design cross the strait.
171. The Strait of Hormuz is one the busiest waterways in the world.
172. Many Aboriginal and 24)Torres Strait Islander people who were placed with white families did not find out about their background until late in life.
173. U. S. Fifth Fleet said on the 20th, a submarine and an amphibious landing ship earlier in the day in Iran near the Strait of Hormuz collision.
174. A strait of the North Sea between southwest Sweden and eastern Jutland, Denmark. It connects with the North Sea through the Skagerrak.
175. The Strait of Gibraltar connects the Mediterranean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean.
176. The Beagle Channel is a strait separating islands of the Tierra del Fuego Archipelago, in extreme southern South America.
177. Arches of ice that usually span Nares Strait, between Greenland and Ellesmere Island, failed to form in 2007, giving sea ice an additional exit route from the Arctic.
178. And that, says Strait, suggests that simplistic ideas about australopithecine diets, based on tooth and jaw size, and why they went extinct, need to be reevaluated.
179. Vancouver: A city of southwest British Columbia , Canada, on the Strait of Georgia opposite Vancouver Island.
180. But communism eventually took hold and the region, 24 miles across the Bering Strait from Alaska, became the front line in the Cold War.
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