Sentence examples for pretty strained from inspiring English sources

"The majority's effort seems pretty strained," Professor Blasi said.

Alas, though, relations today between the Obama administration and "business" are pretty strained.

When you put all this together, the chain of assumptions between voting and any notion of maximizing the satisfaction of the maximum number of people seems pretty strained.

But since then, the relationship between Twitter and Facebook has been pretty strained.

For countries like Iran and Venezuela, the prospect of forcibly cutting supplies is sometimes far worse than the prospect of falling oil prices, especially with state finances in a pretty strained condition.

It, too, doesn't have the rights from many mainstream publishing houses, but while BitLit is trying to work with publishers, Amazon's relationship with the industry is pretty strained right now.

You might be able to play with a somewhat strained quad or a somewhat strained hammy.

Alexis' relationship with her dad is strained for pretty much the first time in the show's six seasons.

If we look towards Palin's part of the world and the history of the exploration of the Arctic Circle, the comparison becomes even more strained, because polar frontierswomen pretty much didn't exist.

But as you watch this strained, lifeless imitation, it also seems pretty certain that knowing the language wouldn't make the film actually — what's the right word? — funny.

In romance novels, these scenes are pretty much all alike, relying on an unfortunate mixture of strained metaphors and graphic anatomical detail.