Sentence examples similar to it was rather strained from inspiring English sources
It is important to remember that attempts to mix business with pleasure can be rather strained.
The resemblance, if granted, is rather strained.
During the whole of my career I hardly ever spoke to the Reichsfuehrer SS because our personal relations were rather strained.
Sheriff James Scott said the prosecutor's "attempts to squeeze malice and ill will out of the agreed facts were rather strained".
Heatley stayed on in Illinois for several months, supposedly to work in collaboration with his American counterpart Dr Andrew Moyer on the project, but relations between the two men were rather strained at times, since Heatley found Moyer secretive and uncommunicative.
IF MICHAEL MOORE bumped into an average German on the street, the encounter might be rather strained: the film-maker's grungy appearance could well be taken as one more piece of evidence of America's incorrigible ugliness.But looks aren't everything: like most Europeans, the Germans love the way Mr Moore is exposing the defects, real and imagined, of his own country.
"It was rather unnerving".
It was rather warmer then".
