strait
noun
Often straits. a narrow passage of water connecting two large bodies of water.
straitly
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a word derived from
strait.
Example Sentences
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Nor, he contended, should one try to create new powers through interpretation of the document's phrases, for the Constitution "was intended to lace them up straitly within the enumerated powers."
From Time Magazine Archive
My life all these years had been bound so straitly and narrowly there at home.
From In a Mysterious Way by Anne Warner
I know not why my path should be at times So straitly hedged, so strongly barred before; I only know God could keep wide the door; But I can trust.
From Poems with Power to Strengthen the Soul by James Mudge
The place was straitly watched by vigilant 295 warders, and within the wall so carefully defended lay the Queen’s bower, a fairer chamber than any beneath the sun, and decorated with the most marvellous paintings.
From Legends & Romances of Brittany by Lewis Spence
Long-waisted and straitly cut stays were worn, the gown sleeve is short as the coat-sleeve of a Charles II. courtier.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 4 "Coquelin" to "Costume" by Various
