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Sentence count:127+3Posted:2017-03-12Updated:2020-07-24
Synonym: headpassstraitSimilar words: straitstraiteneddire straitsstraitlacedstrait of hormuztraittraitorportraitMeaning: [streɪt]  n. 1. a bad or difficult situation or state of affairs 2. a difficult juncture. 
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31. Voice over Others are in worse straits. Male speaker I know farmers who still have two hundred acres to get in.
32. Then there are those who will tell you that the winter storms sucking through the Magellan Straits are the most deadly.
33. Certain straits have been specifically designated as international waterways by treaty.
34. He had had little idea of the dire straits prevailing at Berwick nor that time had all but run out.
35. Other scholars heard that he was unwell and sent him notes made remote by their instinct that his straits must mortify him.
36. Who knew what an unhappy woman might say in such straits, and how little she might mean it?sentence dictionary
37. The Straits Times, the government-controlled newspaper, reported the loss in dark, ominous headlines, heavy with foreboding.
38. A friend in similar straits advises me not to even try to go back, but to pick it up from here.
39. The matter was not carefully investigated because Thebes was in sore straits at the time.
40. They also do a superb rendition of Dire Straits Romeo and Juliet sung by a drunken man.
41. Arnil finally decided to return to his wife but feels ashamed to do so because of his financial straits.
42. Although he had many substantial patrons, Evesham may have been in financial straits in the mid-1620s.
43. For those in desperate straits the line between superstition and saving faith is finely drawn.
44. Without papal assistance, crown finances would have been in even more desperate straits than in fact they were.
45. In another very close team event Wallasey just beat the Menai Straits one design club by a quarter point.
46. The editorials in the Straits Times were plaintive: How could the voters be so ungrateful?
47. In desperate straits and full of misgivings, I decide to seek therapy.
48. They were expelled, and replaced by an Athenian citizen colony, strategically placed to hold the straits of Artemision.
49. The Straits Times itself may be among the first to feel the change.
50. For those in truly dire straits, bankruptcy is sometimes the only option.
51. The death of Vial left his widow in parlous straits.
52. Then Iraq was in desperate straits.
53. Businesses are in especially dire straits.
54. We are now in financial straits.
55. He failed, and is now in dire straits.
56. The straits of Gibraltar lies between Europe and Africa.
57. New York state in dire straits.
58. The Straits of Dover can be very rough.
59. Agamemnon was in great straits.
60. The straits of Dover lie between France and England.
More similar words: straitstraiteneddire straitsstraitlacedstrait of hormuztraittraitorportraitstrainstrainedstraightrestrainconstrainstraightenconstraintstraightawaystraight linestraighten upunrestrainedconstrainedlystraightforwardstrain every nervekeep a straight facewraithtraintrailtraineetrailertrainerby train
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