Collocations with strait

These are words often used in combination with strait.

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desperate straits
On the other hand, there are highly subsidised areas, the 'enclaves of poverty', zones of social-economic degradation where indigenous peoples may be in desperate straits.
dire straits
To be sure, not everyone in the tory leadership felt that they were in such dire straits.
economic straits
This child was born of a legitimate union, and was given up when the mother was left alone and in dire economic straits.
financial straits
This left him in financial straits, prolonged because he lost his job and failed to find another for several years.
narrow strait
There is an enormous change of water twice a day through a narrow strait.
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