shortest route
Example Sentences
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Greenland's location also puts it on the shortest route for missiles between Russia and the United States.
From Barron's • Dec. 22, 2025
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
It was like some bizarre version of a geocaching club; the minute somebody’s daughter turned eighteen, all the aunties began to scheme the shortest route from her parents’ home to the ultimate prize—her sasural.
From "When Dimple Met Rishi" by Sandhya Menon
