Definitionn. a bad or difficult situation or state of affairs
Last update: July 23, 2015
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In 1881 a treaty was signed which provided that the boundary line should follow the highest crests of the Andes forming the watershed as far south as the 52nd parallel,thence east to the 10th meridian and south-east to Cape Dungeness at the eastern entrance to the Straits of Magellan. [Please select]
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Jean Valjean had been in worse straits than this. [Please select]
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Arnold was in even more desperate straits. [Please select]
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No straits leading to the western ocean had been discovered there, and no Sea of Verrazzano. [Please select]
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And soon the fish in the sea also began to fail them, so that they were in sore straits. [Please select]
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Your stepfather is in great straits for money, it seems, and he might be tempted to do something desperate. [Please select]
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[4] As to the straits to which people were put for small change, read McMaster's _History of the People of the U. [Please select]
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At daybreak they were in the entrance of the Straits, but the enemy was not in sight. [Please select]
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Poor little Dick, in sore straits, was striving to keep up his courage by whistling "Soldiers of Our Queen." [Please select]
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But here was the honor of the country, and we merely stole back through the Straits. [Please select]
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Three years successively, in his ship the "Herald," he passed inside Behring's Straits, and far into the Arctic Ocean. [Please select]
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