shortest route
Example Sentences
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The shortest route for a ballistic missile to reach the U.S. from Russia is over Greenland.
From Barron's • Jan. 13, 2026
True high-speed rail requires hundreds of miles of “sealed corridor” free of grade-level crossings, inaccessible to trespassers who often are trying to get from A to B by the shortest route.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 5, 2025
As a result they don’t always fly by the shortest route, but "airspace modernisation", as it is known, will allow for straighter paths to destinations.
From BBC • Nov. 28, 2024
To measure longer distances, you can draw a thread around a globe, such that the shortest route is a curve—after all, Earth is not flat.
From Scientific American • Aug. 17, 2023
If she had been able to follow her nose, that is, to take the shortest route to where Mr. Ages lived, her journey would have been easy enough.
From "Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH" by Robert C. O'Brien
