strait

How To Use strait In A Sentence

• Straits director Eric Lim said an ethylene dichloride (EDC) plant was in the planning stages and would be budgeted for separately. ANC Daily News Briefing
• The oil terminal is in the narrow strait that separates the island from the mainland.
• The paper analyzes the evolution of Straits Settlements governments policy to overseas Chinese secret society.
• In straitened circumstances we must all learn to cut our coats according to our cloths, right? Times, Sunday Times
• Then he arose and clomb the mast to see an there were any escape from that strait; and he would have loosed the sails; but the wind redoubled upon the ship and whirled her round thrice and drave her backwards; whereupon her rudder brake and she fell off towards a high mountain. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
• The national curriculum must be a guide, not a straitjacket.
• The country's rail capacity is squeezing into the narrowest straits in its history. Times, Sunday Times
• It's one of the more panic-inducing screen sequences in memory: In a hospital morgue, a mental patient is trussed in a straitjacket and locked away in the airless dark of a body storage drawer.
• In France, there is no ideological straitjacket that prohibits intervention. Times, Sunday Times
• Mayor Street defends the cuts as an unpleasant necessity due to the city's financial straits.