Sentence examples for strait I from inspiring English sources

Territories to the north and east of the strait (i.e., the Malay Peninsula and Singapore) fell to the British, while the areas to the south and west of the boundary (i.e., Sumatra and the Riau and Lingga island groups) were given to the Dutch.

Now those are the kind of dire straits I'd like to be in.

There are students squeezing part-time jobs around college work to afford these rents, and those suffering the kind of financial "dire straits" I overheard one talking about.

And when I'm in dire straits, I do what any 8-year-old does; I kick a soccer ball against the garage hoping somebody feels sorry and says, "Hey, want to play?" With millions of Americans out of work or doing work for which they are overqualified, I consider myself lucky.

If Atlanta's disabled commuters were in similar straits, I would have wanted some of my hard-earned dollars to be allocated to fixing that.

After watching the SOTU, with all the references to promises unfilled, and explanations of actions that have left America in the most dire straits, I have to ask: What shadow is Newsweek talking about?

After twenty years of helping family and friends work their way out of dire financial straits, I am used to explaining that an unplanned default on credit cards is not a crime, it's only a civil law matter -- a breach of contract.

My loins into my paunch like levers grind: My buttock like a crupper bears my weight; My feet unguided wander to and fro; In front my skin grows loose and long; behind, By bending it becomes more taut and strait; Crosswise I strain me like a Syrian bow: Whence false and quaint, I know, Must be the fruit of squinting brain and eye; For ill can aim the gun that bends awry.

Television are a total product of New York, but like the Feelgoods they embody both the traditional and the revolutionary, and they represent an escape from the roller-coaster to oblivion into which rock is currently strait-jacketed – i.e, an imaginative return to basics – and what they lose to the Feelgoods in energy and pacing, they gain in imagination.

The only song solely written by Mr. Strait here, "I Just Can't Go On Dying Like This," is a paragon of dignified regret, practically slumping over with hurt.

I think that we're in dire straits and I don't think the city has recognized it".