Sentence examples for are quite strained from inspiring English sources
He says that relations between the two groups are "quite strained".
He has clashed often with the city council, which is dominated by Mormons.He points with mock pride to a cartoon on his office wall of a Mormon politician showing his picture to a tough-looking seagull (a Mormon symbol) and telling the bird to "make it look like an accident".The mayor says that relations between Mormons and non-Mormons are "quite strained".
While Mr. Bloomberg's relationship with Gov. David A. Paterson has been generally cooperative, his relationship with Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, a Democrat, has been quite strained.
In fact, it's quite strained, as are many father-son relationships in real life.
Given the fall in gas prices and output, the province's fiscal accounts are thus quite strained in 2009.
The resemblance, if granted, is rather strained.
Thus, by the 1880s and 90s, relations between the two men were often quite strained (Groenewegen, 1995, and Schultz, 2004).
It is quite unlike the atmosphere of strained toleration or active dislike between the sexes we seem to have at home".
Van Gaal is quite fond of a joke, even in the present strained circumstances.
It is this fleeing that gives Match of the Day its strained quality, an emblem of some basic wrong turn, of a world in which nothing will ever be quite so cosy or familiar or tweedily domestic ever again.
