Sentence examples for looks strained from inspiring English sources
His face looks strained; his shoulders, narrow and sloped.
Sitting in his office, in the department of information systems in one of the LSE's new tower blocks, Simon Davies still looks strained by the unwanted attention.
Nor are the Chinese state firms necessarily any worse than private western companies (Chevron faces a $19bn lawsuit for its pollution of the Ecuadorean Amazon), but they are an additional source of pressure on a region that already looks strained by the environmental weight of the world.
Sometimes this looks strained and forced, as though a barrel is being scraped.
When the position is properly formed and maintained (see videos at bottom of post), it can look really beautiful; otherwise it looks strained until the partners open up and let go of each other.
If rigorously streamlined looks strained last season to compete with lavish embellishments, today the scales are tipping in favor of an understated look brought to life by well-considered details like asymmetric necklines, revers lapels and exaggerated collars that signal, as Ms. Sherin said, "that we are moving into a new cycle".
She just didn't look strained anymore.
The MP, at first stunned, began to look strained.
Attempts to appeal on this scale today can look strained.
Increasingly, Goold's directorial concepts look strained, even incoherent.
Gerda's face now looked strained, as though she were wearied by the effort of retelling the tale.
