Sentence examples for I were straining from inspiring English sources

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.

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.

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".

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.

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.

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.

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

And I never felt that I was straining credibility telling them we were safe from earthquakes and wild fires.

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