Sentence examples for always strained from inspiring English sources

Tolerance was always strained.

Yet his relationship with Longson was always strained.

— Julia Moskin The Consumerist: Meanwhile, the quality of Greek yogurt (like mercy) is not always strained.

Now I recognize as heroic Guston's surrender of a lifelong yearning for august refinement, which was always strained and tinged with falseness, coming from a tragic junkman's son.

Relations with Zanzibar, which had united with Tanganyika in 1964 to form the United Republic of Tanzania with Nyerere as president, were always strained.

WITH an estimated $2 billion a week being wagered in Asia alone on football, the notion that match-fixing in the sport was a small, contained problem always strained the imagination.

For Dolce & Gabbana, the impulse toward excess is always straining against the boundaries of good tailoring.

From here those who come will always strain towards him, always chasing that lone upright figure out in front.

It seems to be always straining for a magical back-to-childhood bedtime experience that it never quite delivers.

"I was always straining, without having a cold or anything, and I could feel my voice when I was speaking.

He has always been one of those odd figures in the digital world, always straining for and never quite attaining legitimacy.