Sentence examples for I was straining from inspiring English sources

I was straining against an urge to run and hide, which was welling up inside me like a bad meal.

"It was like: 'Come on love, come on love, oargh, oargh.' But everyone decided it sounded more like I was straining on the toilet".

But as is invariably the case with chamber music in such large spaces, the performance seemed distant; I felt as if I was straining to eavesdrop on an intimate conversation.

Of course not smoking is doing wonders for my health, and in the long term it will certainly help my fitness but when I was straining in the third kilometre I admit I wobbled: "Why did I bother?

Is that how you think I became an incredible ballerina?" And then I'd cup my hand to my ear and lean in real close like I was straining to hear my friend's response.

So I said, 'OK, go ahead,' and the whole time I was straining at stool".

Thinking this over, I realize an e-mail listserv might have spread the news as, or more, efficiently; I'm straining here, I know it.

But most of the time I felt as if I were straining to understand a mysterious voice crying out from the other side of the universe, which is, I suppose, the desired effect.

My parents were aging; my wife and I were straining under the chaos of young children; my sister was bracing to prepare her preteens for bullying, sex and cyberstalking.

I know her name, and I'm straining to remember her face other than how I've seen in pictures.

I am straining to listen as I make my way together through the aches and pains of my patients.