skyscraper

skyscraper


    Choose language
    flag-widget
    flag-widget
    flag-widget
    flag-widget
    flag-widget
    flag-widget
    flag-widget
    Synonyms and Definitions

    Use "strained" in a sentence

    strained example sentences

    strained


    1. Most of these can be made into a decoction, strained and added to water to be sprayed


    2. Big Petey strained all his muscles and then pulled


    3. thread strained and writhed as the inner plastic of the shop-window mannequin


    4. Their relationship became a little strained after that


    5. In profile he had a slightly aquiline nose, slightly ridged in the middle, and I couldn’t help noticing that his shirt strained a little around his mid-riff


    6. I strained at the chain, desperate to try and reach the door


    7. Although Menachem continued to laugh and joke, although he strained so hard to contrive new amusements, the sudden and utter futility of my life was all that I could comprehend


    8. His shoulders hunched a little, his arms strained thinner


    9. ,' her voice was strained, thin and shrill


    10. He strained hard to look at the bowler

    11. Many had grown daughters, and it seemed to Ava it was up to the daughter, with some strained advice from the father, whether or not the daughter would share her bed with one of the soldiers


    12. “What!” There was a moment of strained silence and then Alexei erupted


    13. Eye to eye contact between the two was strained for a moment, and then Duncan smiled


    14. “How many people live here,” Ava grunted as they strained at the oars


    15. “My Queen,” Boras answered in a strained voice as he bowed from the landing, “I… I suddenly felt ill


    16. I was moving toward her and Cordra’s strained face was shaking


    17. They howled and strained against their


    18. Carol tries to smile, but her eyes are strained and the effect is thin and reedy


    19. There was a moment’s strained silence and then – as if on


    20. Harry and the young ladies sipped their tea, and strained to hear something of the conference, but to no avail

    21. Belle gathered her strained wits about her and calmly explained that their son Henry was, this day in fact, “


    22. Once back at Knume’s she washed some clothes she would be taking, while they soaked, she squeezed and strained the lvinch, filling three big skins with the juice


    23. watched the man she had come to love fight for both their lives? Heather strained


    24. The foredecks were awash and the cargo lashings strained


    25. strained to look over his shoulder


    26. ’ There was another strained silence, until he


    27. to his knees in exhaustion, his breathing strained and his


    28. It strained against the chains that bound it within me and raged when it could not be freed


    29. Above the hail’s drumming from outside, we strained to hear the sound of beasts or snakes, but could detect no danger


    30. Their relationship was strained

    31. Initially there was some strained interaction between the two sisters, but that dissipated gradually as the day wore on


    32. The haunting calls to battle, strained voices of Tullius and others flooded back into her ears


    33. And acknowledging the newly strained non-relationship he bore with the Guild, it would have to be a delicate process of extraction


    34. Doris had a small orgasm from this and when it happened, she held his head with her hands, a look of wild passion on her strained, pretty face


    35. His right arm, the one caught by Fletcher, was sore, the muscles were strained and he could feel a lack of strength in its movement


    36. The angle of the cliff was more in his favour until the overhang, but his strained arm was beginning to weaken and the cold was starting to numb his fingers


    37. Possibly the worse thing he could do with a strained shoulder was dangle over a cliff some ten metres above rocks


    38. ” announced Susan, as she leant forward through the open panel and strained to see where Debbie was shining the torch


    39. He climbed further until his feet were on the last rung and then he pulled himself up the last bit, hurting his strained arm again in the process


    40. ’ Its voice was reedy but male, throaty and strained

    41. ’ She said his name in such a strained and desperate way that he knew something to be very wrong


    42. “Then it"s strained to remove all impurities


    43. While they all strained to move it, Felix did his best to also visually check the dinghy for signs on damage


    44. “Mary, what shall we do?” His voice was strained


    45. ‘Yes,’ she said in a strained voice


    46. His voice was so low, I strained to hear every word


    47. She strained her ears


    48. ” We strained our eyes as we looked out into the dark and shadows of No Man’s Land for this is the direction in which they would come


    49. He strained his ears, but he could hear nothing, only the silence


    50. strained tones of ‘Walking in the Air’ drifted through to him, Jack












































    Show more examples

    Synonyms for "strained"

    agonistic strained constrained forced labored laboured unlikely improbable far-fetched recondite obscure

    "strained" definitions

    lacking natural ease


    showing signs of mental and emotional tension


    lacking spontaneity; not natural


    struggling for effect