Sentence examples for some strained from inspiring English sources

Still, there were some strained moments.

Then he added some strained stock and the light cream.

There were patchy moments in Mr. Kaiser's singing, including some strained top notes.

While the two have been friends since they were young teens, their relationship had some strained moments during the 2010 Winter Olympics.

If that refrain evoked some strained recent speeches from our political world, so did "Year of the Tiger," which closes the album and came next to last here.

(After some strained back-and-forth with an employee, I discovered that a Mr. Chocolate is the owner; 1402 St. Nicholas Avenue, at West 180th Street).

A solution to the problem of a beam composed of some preliminary strained parts (layers) subject to flexural loads is presented under large strains.

In some especially strained European countries, including Spain and Britain, many young people have become discouraged and given up the job hunt, it said.

The 40-year-old Ewing spent 15 seasons with the Knicks through several coaching and management changes, including some that strained relationships and ended friendships.

And yet the parallel struck some as strained — "off target," the Yale historian John Lewis Gaddis, the author of a new biography of the cold-war strategist George F. Kennan, said in an interview.

The footnoted report also exposes missteps, failures of memory, efforts among members of the Paterson administration to hide things from one another, instances in which they felt that they had been lied to or enlisted in questionable behavior, and what seem like some very strained rationalizations.