St. George's Channel

noun

1. a channel between Wales and Ireland, connecting the Irish Sea and the Atlantic. 100 miles (160 km) long; 50–90 miles (81–145 km) wide.

Example Sentences

Could the East Coast be pushed out beyond the North Sea, and Lancashire be stretched until it took in Galway, St. George's Channel and all, there might be room enough on England's shores for every parliamentary voter to have a few acres of Trwyn foreshore of his own and a black cow walking up and down them, seeking coolness and food hock-deep in the glistening ebb; but, as things are, the littoral is by much too small.

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The night was bitterly cold; a fine rain was driving south-westward, down the St. George's Channel.

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He landed on the eastern shore of St. George's Channel the same man as when the spires of Dublin faded from his eye in the western horizon.

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The Roman Church on both sides of St. George’s Channel never neglected its educational duties.

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That St George’s Bay was really St George’s Channel, dividing the island into two, was not perceived by Dampier; it was the discovery 791 of his successor, Philip Carteret.

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