shipping lane
Example Sentences
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I think they are satisfied with maintaining the blockade and with allowing some periodic targeting against Iran's capability to upset the shipping lane in the strait.
From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026
By 12:11, the small boat, with 82 people on board, finally moves off into the busiest shipping lane in the world.
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026
Kazem Gharibabadi, Iran’s deputy foreign minister, said Tehran wants the inbound shipping lane entirely under its control.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 2026
According to Kato, it took him a month to make his way back into the shipping lane from California to Hawaii.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2026
It was better in such conditions to fish Elliot Head, since the head lay far from the shipping lane and well to the lee side of Elliot Island, out of the big water breezes.
From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson
