Sentence examples for strait it from inspiring English sources

With Asia and Europe straddling either side of its glittering Bosphorus Strait, it's also replete with paradoxes: East and West, old and new.

Bass Strait it shall remain.

In the Tsugaru Strait it is usual to see 150 boats fishing for tuna.

An inlet of Bass Strait, it is separated from Port Phillip Bay (12 miles [19 km] west) by Mornington Peninsula.

As water began to pour across the strait, it eroded the ridge until the flow became a catastrophic deluge.

The shrine's architecture is a masterpiece of the shinden style: Poised on vermilion pillars and facing the mainland across the Onoseto Strait, it appears at high tide to float on the sea.

But all the good wishes and nostalgia couldn't stave off the inevitable: Sterling was in financial straits, it was chronically delinquent with its rent, and its landlord decided it was time to sell the property.

Whistling Straits, it must be said, has benefited from frequent summer rain deluges.

With communities climbing from such dire straits, it remains to be seen whether modest economic gains will be enough.

"If any changes are to occur with regard to the circumstances in the straits it should be through negotiations.

If Genoa's Gigi Del Neri was not yet in such dire straits, it was only because he arrived more recently.