Formosa Strait

British  

noun

1. Also called: Taiwan Strait.  an arm of the Pacific between Taiwan and mainland China, linking the East and South China Seas

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Example Sentences

Cruising along at 40,000 ft. over the Formosa Strait, eight Chinese Nationalist F-86 Sabre jets picked out the white contrails of nearly a score of Communist MIG-17s in the early morning sunlight.

From Time Magazine Archive

The U.S. also wants to explore the chances for a cease-fire in the Formosa Strait.

From Time Magazine Archive

In 1953 Radford advised Eisenhower to revise Harry Truman's two-way U.S. blockade of the Formosa Strait.

From Time Magazine Archive

President Charles de Gaulle last week detonated a political bomb that scattered fallout from the Formosa Strait to Washington's Foggy Bottom.

From Time Magazine Archive

The Independence steered through the Formosa Strait, across the Eastern Sea, and on the 25th of July entered the bay of Nangasaki under Russian colours, which she thenceforth continued to fly.

From Old Fires and Profitable Ghosts by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir