Sentence examples for a strait between from inspiring English sources

In a strait between Scotland's Inner and Outer Hebrides, blue mermen sometimes rise from the sea, board a ship, and shout out a line of verse.

But step inside and a winding corridor leads you up through lava rock into two cave-like rooms, with vast panoramic windows overlooking the "Rio", a strait between Lanzarote and the tiny island of La Graciosa.

From there Peter the Great, an Enlightenment man, sent expeditions of scientific inquiry to search for a strait between Asia and America, and in 1741 Vitus Bering found Alaska.

A theoretical array of tidal stream turbines was designed for the Pentland Firth (UK), a strait between Scotland and the Orkney Islands, which has very fast tidal currents.

The latter two, however, are sometimes considered part of a strait between Lake Huron and Lake Erie.

The route passes a boat ramp accessed from Ralph Abbott Road before a high-level bridge carries it over Upper Thorofare, a strait between Laws Cove and Tangier Sound.

The tide of Euripus (Evrípos)—a strait lying between continental Greece and the island of Euboea (Évvoia) in the Aegean is, however, extremely important, because it displays a tidal phenomenon of international significance, to which it has, in fact, lent its name.

During the Late Pliocene, a wide strait between southwestern Hokkaido and northern Honshu, corresponding to the modern Tsugaru Strait, connected the Japan Sea with the North Pacific Ocean (Fig. 2).

The main action took place in Valcour Bay, a narrow strait between the New York mainland and Valcour Island.

On the evening of July 11th, we entered a thirty-mile-wide strait between the southern end of Novaya Zemlya and Vaygach Island, at the entrance to the Kara Sea.

For the candidate, this narrow strait between a child's privacy and his own political necessity can be difficult to navigate.