How to Use trade route in a Sentence

trade route

noun

• In the past, Dubai Creek was part of the trade route connecting ports in the Arabian Gulf.
  — Latifah Al-Hazza, Travel + Leisure, 25 July 2023
• These two ports are the chokehold for the dominant Asian-U.S. trade route.
  — Harry G. Broadman, Forbes, 1 Oct. 2021
• The pet cat may also speak to the exchange of goods and culture that took place along the historic trade route.
  — Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 July 2020
• Theotokas believes the position of the Suez as a world trade route will remain strong.
  — Nell Lewis, CNN, 31 May 2021
• Some countries, like Iraq, would like to open trade routes through Syria.
  — Edward Wong, New York Times, 13 Apr. 2023
• The problems are especially acute on the Asia-to-U.S. trade route.
  — David J. Lynch, Anchorage Daily News, 3 Oct. 2021
• The ship, the Ever Given, ran aground in March and blocked the crucial global trade route for nearly a week.
  — Harold Maass, The Week, 8 July 2021
• But an economic lifeline has emerged from what was long viewed as a high-risk trade route: the Black Sea.
  — Constant Méheut, New York Times, 20 Dec. 2023
• The story of the trade route from Asia to the Mediterranean world is commonly thought to begin in the first century A.D.
  — Claire Bugos, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 Dec. 2020
• The Canaanites were pagans who once lived along an important trade route in an area now known as the Gaza Strip.
  — Antonia Mufarech, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 May 2022
• Chinese ties to the Arabian peninsula date back to the Silk Road, as the region was part of that trade route.
  — Warren P. Strobel, WSJ, 25 May 2021
• Beijing has moved to lay claim to islands in the South China Sea, a major global trade route.
  — Gordon Lubold, WSJ, 8 Sep. 2020
• The idea was to re-create the old Silk Road—the trade routes between East and West that were the foundations of the world’s first truly global commerce.
  — By vivienne Walt, Fortune, 22 July 2019
• Barents died in 1597, after his ship became trapped in ice during an attempt to crest the top of the world and find a trade route to China.
  — The New Yorker, 18 Jan. 2021
• The move jeopardizes a key trade route from Ukraine, one of the world’s top grain and vegetable oil shippers, just as its next harvest kicks off.
  — Megan Durisin, Fortune, 17 July 2023
• Once home to a bustling trade route, the region bears the marks of Morocco’s imbricated faiths and folkways.
  — Michael Snyder, New York Times, 17 Nov. 2022
• The Gaza Strip was once home to the Canaanite settlement and a trade route between civilizations.
  — Asha C. Gilbert, USA TODAY, 27 Apr. 2022
• Ketchup spread widely along maritime trade routes, and British sailors encountered it, loved it, and brought it back home in the late 17th century.
  — Melissa Mohr, The Christian Science Monitor, 10 Apr. 2023
• The partners in the new trade route also have both the funds and the political will to bring the project to fruition in a sufficient enough time to be able to challenge the BRI, Bianco added.
  — Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN, 11 Sep. 2023
• Most notable among these are the Sogdians, a central Asian civilization with the good fortune to sit in the midst of the vibrant trade route.
  — Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 20 Nov. 2020
• On March 29th, after six days of blocking a vital trade route, the skyscraper-size ship was set right and sailed north under its own power.
  — The Economist, 30 Mar. 2021
• The ships that probed the northern islands of Canada were searching for a cheaper, simpler trade route to hard-to-access partners.
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 9 Nov. 2022
• But for millennia before that, Paiute, Shoshone, and other tribes built and maintained the trail as a popular trade route.
  — Rebecca Nagle, Condé Nast Traveler, 11 Aug. 2020
• Moscow also wants to expand the trade route through Arctic waters.
  — William Mauldin, WSJ, 19 May 2021
• During the Viking Age, the lake served as a big trade route, although there are notable gaps in what is known before and during these times, according to Ødegård.
  — Taylor Nicioli, CNN, 12 Dec. 2022
• The Seto Inland Sea was Japan's most important trade route for centuries, before road and rail.
  — Kate Crockett, Condé Nast Traveler, 27 Dec. 2023
• Its true purpose is to place China at the hub of trade routes and communications networks.
  — H. R. McMaster, The Atlantic, 17 Apr. 2020
• During the 16th century, spices flowed from Asia to Nuremberg, a crossroad of key European trade routes.
  — Joan Bailey, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Feb. 2023
• The new trade routes largely pass through countries that have friendly relations with Moscow.
  — Jack Ewing, New York Times, 11 May 2023
• Over centuries, new trade routes in the Americas and the rise of Napoleon stripped Venice of its geopolitical importance.
  — Emma Bubola Laetitia Vancon, New York Times, 1 Apr. 2023

Last Updated: 28 May 2024