Eksempler på bruk av ordet Straits i setninger på engelsk.
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Have you ever gone through the Straits of Magellan?
Har du noen gang gått gjennom Magellansundet?
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You're always there for me, so if you're ever in dire straits, just let me know and I'll come running.
Du er alltid der for meg, så hvis du noen gang er i nød, gi meg beskjed, så kommer jeg løpende.
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Sami was in dire straits.
Sami var i knipe.
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The straits were too narrow for the cruise ship.
Sundene var altfor smale for cruiseskipet.
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She was in dire straits, but made a virtue out of necessity.
Hun var i store problemer, men fant en dyd i nødvendigheten.
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If she continues to live with a man she doesn't love for his money, the day will come when she will despair and be in dire straits.
Hvis hun fortsetter å bo med en mann hun ikke elsker for pengene hans, vil dagen komme da hun vil fortvile og være i nød.
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Get your facts strait.
Tom har mange planer.
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At this point the sea narrows into a strait.
På dette punktet smalner havet inn til et sund.
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This boat sails through the Strait of Gibraltar.
Denne båten seiler gjennom Gibraltarstredet.
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The Torres Strait divides New Guinea from Australia.
Torres-stredet deler Ny-Guinea fra Australia.
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The rail-line was carried under the Tsugaru Strait to Hokkaido.
Jernbanelinjen ble ført under Tsugaru-stredet til Hokkaido.
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The Bering Strait separates Asia from North America.
Beringstredet skiller Asia fra Nord-Amerika.
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The ancestors of Native Americans went to the continent from Asia by way of the Bering Strait.
Forfedrene til urfolkene i Amerika kom til kontinentet fra Asia via Beringstredet.
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Thursday Island is situated in the Torres Strait between Australia's northernmost Cape York and New Guinea.
Thursday Island ligger i Torres Strait mellom Australias nordligste Cape York og Ny Guinea.
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| But Kalkat pointed out that India would be ill-advised to be involved again, militarily, with Sri Lanka if only because it still had to consider the sentiments of 45 million ethnic Tamils in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu - separated from Sri Lanka's Jaffna peninsula by the narrow Palk Straits. | |
| The reason for this is that India is emerging as an alternative investment destination to China, hence the favor that the generals in Islamabad do to their trusty supplier of nukes and missiles by creating a scare about war involving India when in fact the real flashpoints are the Taiwan Straits and North Korea. | |