Thesaurus / straits

straits

How to use straits in a sentence

The Father had been in sore straits of mind, as month after month had passed without tidings of his "blessed child."

RAMONAHELEN HUNT JACKSON

A very few weeks flew over the head of the needy man, before he was reduced to the same pitiable straits.

The Admiralty have turned down the proposal to force the Straits simultaneously by land and sea.

How will he feel now he realizes he is shorn of his direct power to help us through these dark and dreadful Straits?

But what a shame that the sons of a manufacturing country like Great Britain should be in straits for engines so simple.

We did not see them, however, as we kept as near the land as possible, in order not to miss the Straits of Magellan.

The Spaniards were consequently in great straits, for possibly their existence depended on which side the townspeople took.

The land around Gallipoli on the European side of the straits is more bleak and more level.

Further south the coasts close in abruptly, and the straits are like a long Highland loch.

Thence to the straits are about 4500 stadia, in a direction more towards the east.

SYNONYM OF THE DAY

OCTOBER 26, 1985