Sentence examples for looking strained from inspiring English sources

Darling Jane is looking strained, she knows something is up.

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When she finishes, she stands silently behind him, sometimes with an approving smile, sometimes looking strained.

Ties with key benefactors Iran and Syria are looking strained amid reports that Tehran recently slashed funding to Hamas.

The chief constable, looking strained and sombre, said the helicopter had been flying back to its base on the Clyde after an operation in the city, rather than being on patrol.

But Terry Press of DreamWorks is onto something when she suggests that there's a stiff and graduation-like quality to the Oscars ceremony, with its rows of famous faces looking strained and stiff in a posh auditorium.

Armstrong did not look strained today, leading Jalabert to remark: "He made it look so easy that it was beautiful.

Mr Blair had looked strained and emotional on Thursday, before he was joined by his wife late that evening.

Aside from a rare foray into a jaunty light blue jacket, Martha has kept her court wardrobe sensibly dark and sober: with her light complexion, those greys and blacks make her look strained and distressed, as opposed to annoyed at all this nonsense over such a small amount of money.

Underneath their hesitant smiles, both looked strained and uncomfortable.

Mr Zeidan, who had been filmed during his brief captivity, looking highly strained, was remarkably circumspect about his experience, refusing to say who had taken him away at gunpoint and why; limiting himself to saying: "We hope this matter will be treated with wisdom and rationally, far from tension.