English Channel
Speech parts
1. English Channel - Noun
2. English Channel - Proper noun
Meaning
an arm of the Atlantic Ocean that forms a channel between France and Britain
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Examples
I was crossing the English Channel with a carbon-fiber wing on my back.
Our passionate adherence to democracy and freedom is based on the spiritual recognition of the Divinity of man. We are not only not communal but we are nationalists and democrats. The Anti-Fascist Front must extend from the English Channel to the Bay of Bengal.
The English Channel is the perfect stretch of water to truly test the human mind.
For previous generations, swimming the English Channel was the feat to accomplish. And that's been done.
21 minesweepers and other vessels were fitted with Admiralty Outfit QM and, on 5 June 1944, 17 of these ships used it to accurately navigate across the English Channel and to sweep the minefields in the planned areas.
Although it had been designed as an all-altitude interceptor, its clashes with the Luftwaffe over the English Channel in mid-1941 proved it was inadequate for that role except at low level.