Sentence examples for a straits from inspiring English sources

In a Straits Times story in December, Acting Manpower Minister Tan Chuan-Jin said that the Manpower Ministry conducted regular checks on dormitories to ensure that they were up to par and there was no overcrowding.

Nora Eldridge is a "straight-A, strait-laced, good daughter" who has spent four years looking after her dying mother.

A river, a strait, and a bay in North America are named for him.

Hooper is telling a radical story in a strait-laced fashion.

Captain James Cook discovered its true nature as a strait in 1770.

It was discovered in 1576 by Sir Martin Frobisher, who believed it to be a strait.

They looked at her and placed her in a strait jacket although she struggled wildly.

Sean is a strait-laced family man who has been best friends with Christian since college.

For now, many analysts consider the Mail Online a growth source for a strait-laced media company.

The span, at the time the world's third-longest suspension bridge, crossed a strait of Puget Sound near Tacoma, Wash.

We only see her in home-video footage and in Sarah's interpretation of what a strait-laced woman is".