strait * , str. (abbreviation)

Soon the current would start running north through the strait.

But I was now in a great strait, and knew not what to do.

Oh, how great was the strait they were in on that day!

Web looked up and saw what Strait was trying to do.

The world would not be in the straits it is today.

The company had been in financial straits for some time.

This strait has played a key role in the history of the city.

The flight across the strait took less than two hours.

Since that time the strait has lived up to its name.

They might even make it to the strait where our people can pick them up.

It may be in a great strait, and not know what to do: I cannot help that.

Never, she says, has it been in such financial straits.

Now he was like a man in a strait jacket.

Once they were through the Strait, he'd feel better anyway.

In good weather one can see clearly across the strait.

Individual doctors are not the only ones in difficult straits.

If Strait heard the back door open, he made no indication.

Finally Strait stopped what he was doing and slowly looked around.

The strait at this point was about a dozen miles across.

A little while afterwards he was in some other strait.

"Washington would bring me home in a strait jacket if I even asked."

The strait is covered with ice for the most of the year.

The strait has often played a strategic role in history.

Like everyone around the straits we have much experience in such operations.

The idea of them trying to close the strait is pretty amazing.