Sentence examples for a strained expression from inspiring English sources

"No," she said, with a strained expression.

A strained expression overtook his movements as he struggled with some opponent.

From the vantage point of outside the window you could see her talking brightly to a neighbor — brightly but with a strained expression.

"Did you give me your home phone number?" asked Foxy, a moment later, a strained expression on his face.

That seems a strained construction.

She stands a little back with a fond but slightly strained expression, not unlike a mother of several unruly children.

Then go to someone at the sleepover ( please choose wisely )wear a sad or strained expression on your face and walk up to him/ her.Stop and slowly extend your arm with your forefinger pointing at the victim,and with a pitiful voice say: ' Please, hold my finger for a while' or whatever you might think convincing.The victim is suspicious and reluctantly holds your finger looking at you in the eye.

It was the strained expression of an athlete desperate to win, who sensed for a moment that victory might slip away.

We look today at the tall, wiry frame, sometimes bearing that strained expression when things are not going well, at others more urbane, with a ready wry smile and dry one-liner.

But the view of her assistant in the background, crouching over a long table which is heavily peppered with half shells of woven straw, trailing ribbons and spirals of taffeta flowers, as if a little girl's dressing box had spontaneously combusted, suggests the primary reason for Jenks's strained expression: Ascot, presumably the high holy day of hat-makers, begins tomorrow.

The strained expression, I realise now, was just his old skin, stretched across his face, filled with pillows of collagen warming under the lights on his tear-chapped cheeks.