Sentence examples for hideous strain from inspiring English sources

The documented lynchings of 4,743 people, most of them black, from 1882 to 1968 were a hideous strain on the national soul, but Clarence Thomas's "high-tech lynching" or the wretched message at Columbia are not the same thing.

His hideous, veiny neck strains out of his enormous body like a tree stump out of a hillside.

The FX show is about a parasitical creature that displays hideous vitality, but unfortunately, "The Strain" is dramatically inert.

The stress was hideous.

I love making hideous faces into my mirror while I strain to see what could possibly be crammed between my back molars.

Absolutely hideous.

My feet look hideous!

Simply hideous.

I looked hideous.

Hideous stuff.

Hideous title.