Sentence examples for a high strained voice from inspiring English sources

"Hurts," she said, in a high, strained voice.

But those drawn over the last half-century to his high, strained voice and doggedly affecting ballads will find plenty here to flesh out their portrait of a man who prefers amplifiers with valves and cars with carburettors, and resents the way today's music is marketed "like a cool pastime or a toy, not a message to the soul".

What makes the music stand out from the hordes of 60's revivalists already questing for the perfect pop moment is Conor Deasy, who sings each song in a high, breathy, almost strained voice, similar to that of Jason Lytle of Grandaddy (another California band, naturally).

Siskel, in a strained voice about an octave higher than his handsome Midwest baritone on Siskel & Ebert, began to explain to whoever we were that his paper had an absolutely ironclad rule against paying ransom, "actually to discourage situations exactly like this.

And for good reason: It is easier to ignore a strained voice or a waving hand than a direct greeting or an outstretched arm".

"Do you know who you just made a monkey of?" he rasps in a strained voice.

In fan footage that surfaced shortly after the concert Ocean struggled to power through a strained voice during a performance of "Forrest Gump".

Roddy talked about the Bomb in a hushed, strained voice.

"I started to worry I might run out of gas and be frozen," Ms. Theroux, 23, recalled on Wednesday in a tired, strained voice.

While such questions are appropriate, scholars often speak with a more strained voice to broader audiences.

She appears uneasy onstage, gesticulating far too frequently and shouting many of her lines in a hoarse, strained voice.