Sentence examples for face strained from inspiring English sources

His face strained.

His face strained between happiness and extreme discomfort.

His face strained and his pedaling uneasy for the first time in this Tour, Armstrong continued to lose ground.

It was of a nun in her grey habit, her face strained and bloodied, slumped by the roadside and sending a text on her mobile phone.

It is therefore a shock to come across his self-portrait at the close of this show: the eyes red-rimmed, the face strained, worn and uncertain.

And tens of millions of U.S. savers, largely the elderly, face strained circumstances created by the abnormally low interest rates the Fed created.

Grabbing a cup of coffee one recent morning, he scrunched up his face, straining to remember what to do.

I spot a lamb teetering on the edge of a rock face straining to reach the laden branches of a fig tree.

Then they yank him to his feet by his cuffed arms, his face straining with pain as his limbs bend in ways they are not supposed to.

Your face will look strained before you get used to lowering your voice.

Stuck on the gallery's glass walls are bubbles, both of the air-in-water variety, and larger ones that contain zoomed-in stills of porn actors' faces, strained and screaming.