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Menai Strait

NOUN
  1. a strait in northern Wales between Anglesey Island and the mainland

How To Use Menai Strait In A Sentence

  • The most frequently quoted remark was one made by the great English engineer Robert Stephenson, builder of the famous Britannia railroad bridge, a tubular iron bridge, over the Menai Strait the trains ran through a succession of enormous iron boxes set on stone piers. The Great Bridge
  • It is a beautiful little town situated on the southern side of the Menai Strait at nearly its western extremity. Wild Wales : Its People, Language and Scenery
  • The Suspension Bridge at Niagara is an artificial wonder as great, in its degree, as the natural miracle of the mighty cataract which thunders forever at its side; while no triumph of inventive economy could more aptly lead the imaginative stranger into the picturesque beauties of Wales than the extraordinary tubular bridge across the Menai Strait. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 74, December, 1863
  • From there the runners tackled Snowden, then it was another dash to get into the treacherous Menai Straits before the tide turned and made the passage impossible.
  • One of the earliest chain suspension bridges was erected at Menai Strait by Thomas Thelford, and at the same time Brunel sunk his first shaft for the Thames tunnel. A History of the Nineteenth Century, Year by Year Volume Two (of Three)
  • In another very close team event Wallasey just beat the Menai Straits one design club by a quarter point.
  • Beaumaris lies to the south-east of the Isle of Anglesey, and offers stunning views of the Menai Strait and Snowdonia.
  • Beaumaris lies to the south-east of the Isle of Anglesey, and offers stunning views of the Menai Strait and Snowdonia.
  • Arthur's Quoit near Swansea, the dolmen of Pentre Ifan in Pembrokeshire, and that of Plas Newydd on the Menai Strait: in Anglesey they are quite common. Rough Stone Monuments and Their Builders
  • At Newcastle a high level bridge was erected, while at Conway and at the Menai Strait work was begun on two of the greatest tubular bridges of England. A History of the Nineteenth Century, Year by Year Volume Two (of Three)
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