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

Greenland, an autonomous Danish territory, is home to a large US space facility and is strategically important for the US, lying on its shortest route to Europe.

From BBC • Dec. 24, 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

But today she took the shortest route because she was eager to get home and tell her news.

From "The City of Ember" by Jeanne DuPrau