Sentence examples for i am straining from inspiring English sources

I am straining with every fibre of my being to give him what he wants.

Perhaps I am straining to find early hints of the Liberace who in 1984, three years before his death at 67, would arrive onstage for a concert at Radio City Music Hall in a silver Rolls-Royce and emerge wearing a $300,000 fox cape with a 16-foot bejeweled train.

I am straining to listen as I make my way together through the aches and pains of my patients.

Perhaps I am straining too hard and put too much emphasis on durability and less on contemporary judgment, which adds to my own confusion on the definition of the literary novel.

Listing the reasons I am strained or what stresses me?

I was straining against an urge to run and hide, which was welling up inside me like a bad meal.

As I was straining it out and throwing it away it was occurring to me that make pectin from apples, maybe this is two birds with one stone?

"It was like: 'Come on love, come on love, oargh, oargh.' But everyone decided it sounded more like I was straining on the toilet".

Thinking this over, I realize an e-mail listserv might have spread the news as, or more, efficiently; I'm straining here, I know it.

Of course not smoking is doing wonders for my health, and in the long term it will certainly help my fitness but when I was straining in the third kilometre I admit I wobbled: "Why did I bother?

If I wasn't gallivanting around Azeroth in World of Warcraft, then I was straining my eyes at the screen of whichever Gameboy I had conned a well-meaning relative into getting for me.