Sentence examples for an ounce of strength from inspiring English sources
If he had an ounce of strength left in him, he would have been there.
A 47-year-old woman, who has ME, osteoarthritis and nerve damage that leaves her incontinent, chose not even to go ahead with her appeal for Pip because, after waiting a year for a decision, she said that she "didn't have an ounce of strength and just couldn't face the stress".
Off to the side, Jamal had corralled Nigel against a wall and was hitting him repeatedly in the head, pounding on him with a closed fist, beating him with every ounce of strength he had.
I also came away admiring the heroine, a mother and wife, who used every ounce of strength and grace she had to save her family, at times biting her dignity to get out of a hostile Iran, intact.
On the cross, in the midst of pain and suffering, Jesus musters his last ounce of strength to cry in a loud voice, "Father, into your hands I commit my spirit," thereby delivering humankind from their sin.
During these episodes I am also extremely lethargic and have a difficult time talking, as the nausea consumes every ounce of strength.
It takes every ounce of strength for Pat to go through a day, which is accompanied with an episode, mood swings, a manic high or a stream of thoughts about his ex-wife.
Knowing how risky this surgery was for my already-compromised anatomy was further compounded when the surgeon actually bent over and whispered in my ear: "Are you SURE you really want to do this?" I lifted up my head, and with my last ounce of strength, I said, "I just did a one woman show, I can do anything!" Apparently not anything.
