Sentence examples for and strained from inspiring English sources

After which Brazil pressed and strained.

It was a very strange and strained night.

The Franco-German tie is particularly dysfunctional and strained.

Peter Volpe was dry and strained as Sparafucile.

Only one passage of this book seems perfunctory and strained.

"The Dead Eye Boy" has its stale and strained stretches.

The characters seem like puppets, and the sentences are often lumpy and strained.

(I found the Encores! version a bit pushy and strained in trying to create historical context).

Even his few surviving letters to his wife are formal and strained.

His push has triggered international condemnation and strained relations with Washington.

Fliers nowadays expect to walk off planes with stiff hips and strained backs.