Straits is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for STRAITS in dictionary:

VERB:
• STRAIT, to confine
NOUN:
• a narrow passage of water connecting two seas or two other large areas of water
• used in reference to a situation characterized by a specified degree of trouble or difficulty
• a bad or difficult situation or state of affairs
• a difficult juncture
ADJECTIVE:
• (of a place) of limited spatial capacity; narrow or cramped
• close, strict, or rigorous
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• a narrow waterway connecting two larger bodies of water

Words related to STRAITS

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How to use STRAITS in a sentence

• Theirs will come by sea through the Straits of Gibraltar.
• In Bandr-Abas we hired a pilot to take us through the Straits of Kishma.
• He states that, in making the traverse from Point Iroquois across the straits of St.
• The gift came like the answer to a prayer, for there was hunger in the house and the snow was heavy on the ground, all the community being more or less in the same straits.
• The Portuguese kept out of the Mediterranean, and protected their coast by guarding the Straits of Gibraltar.
• Peters was rich and asked Santiago to name his price, and that small dark man admitted financial straits, and so was willing to sell for thirty thousand pounds.
• At four the next morning, being the 7th of March, we made sail, and at eight saw the land, and soon after we began to open the Straits.
• I will pass Fez and Ercilla and the straits and Cadiz.
• Anthony and make an attempt, with fresh equipment, to try a route through the Straits of Belle Isle.
• The Straits were found to be packed from shore to shore with heavy floe ice and clogged with icebergs.
• A fleet under Salvidienus Rufus was sent against Pompey, but was defeated by the latter in the Straits of Sicily, in sight of Octavian.
• Hence the greatness of His might feels no straits in narrow surroundings.
• In 1578 he sailed through the Straits of Magellan, plundered Valparaiso, and also captured a great treasure ship from Acapulco.
• The peasants besieged the Duchess there, and she and her lovely companions were put to sore straits, when suddenly arrived brave Gaston to save them.
• Any one in Financial Straits who went into the Back Office to arrange for a Loan was expected to open Negotiations by removing the Right Eye and laying it on the Table.
• It is a shame that men who have served the cause should be reduced to such straits.
• Any minute off the Straits you did not know but a submarine would have a try at you or you might bump into a mine.
• Thus they gained Guadalcanar, skirted halfway along it, and crossed the Indispensable Straits to Florida Island.
• Soon we passed out of the straits and doubled the south-east corner of the island, round which, four days ago, we had towed the HISPANIOLA.
• The Straits of Benica was a perfectly safe anchorage.
• The exchequer was exhausted by the debts of King James and the war, so that the known revenue was anticipated and the king was driven into straits for his own support.
• Steering through the Straits of Magellan, he plundered the Spanish towns on the western coasts of South America.
• It was a great centre as long ago as when the Phoenician traversed it, and, passing through the Straits of Hercules, sped on his way to distant and then savage Britain.
• The mist continued, and the darkness deepened, as we went through the Straits.
• In the mean time the Dutch have new galleons every year, and the islands are already in the worst of straits.
• Assuredly, had they revolted at this time, they would have placed the country in great straits, for there is a considerable number of them.

Similar words containing STRAIT without suffix s

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