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How To Use straits 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 paper analyzes the evolution of Straits Settlements governments policy to overseas Chinese secret society.
• The country's rail capacity is squeezing into the narrowest straits in its history. Times, Sunday Times
• Mayor Street defends the cuts as an unpleasant necessity due to the city's financial straits.
• The company'sclosure has left many small businessmen in desperate financial straits.
• I can see (as in foresee, not agree) someone in dire straits noticing deer travelling through their yard at night and bushwacking one for meat. "Biggest Bird Poacher" Caught In California
• People come up with the best ideas when they are in dire straits. POSITIVE THINKING: Everything you have always known about positive thinking but were afraid to put into practice
• When you were in dire straits she was superb. The Glasgow Girls
• ‘People pass other climbers who are clearly in dire straits,’ says Tom Sjogren.
• This place he presumed would be somewhere about the Straits of Annian, at which point he supposed the Oregon disembogued itself. Astoria, or Anecdotes of an Enterprise Beyond the Rocky Mountains