Sentence examples for sometimes strained from inspiring English sources

His higher range was stronger, though sometimes strained.

— and since he has been the starter, they have sometimes strained to sound fully supportive.

An artificial sheen gleams from its craftsmanship and its sometimes strained cleverness.

Yet it all happened at a distance; you sometimes strained to hear.

Stoudemire made six All-Star appearances playing for D'Antoni despite a sometimes strained relationship.

Service is sometimes strained when the boisterous dining room is filled.

The meeting was the subject of awkward and sometimes strained protocol.

The power that some Turks attributed to this entity sometimes strained credulity.

Mr. Kunde sometimes strained in the upper reaches of Mahler's tenor line, but otherwise sang attractively.

The marriage was sometimes strained, and many of Barris's pilots mined tensions at home.

Joel Weiss, as Tameem, has a thinnish, sometimes strained, but reasonably attractive tenor.