Sentence examples for sort of strained from inspiring English sources
I couldn't seem to overcome a variety of cold symptoms, and then I began to develop what I thought were some sort of strained muscles around my rib cage.
Natasha and Daniel both have sort of strained relationships with their fathers.
While most parents treat even their pre-verbal offspring with the sort of strained diplomacy typically reserved for United Nations negotiations, it turns out that babies are much more responsive to wagging, licking and the occasional low, menacing growl.
SOPHIE probably had the most success in getting everybody loose, but in comparison AG Cooke was largely treated with the sort of strained collective curiosity normally reserved for the weird kid at school who'd show you his double-jointed elbows in the playground.
Singer Matthew Bellamy doesn't even sound like he's having any fun, twisting his vocals into all sorts of strained contortions as he sings of staying alive and wreaking vengeance.
This is also, you might think, not the most promising material for a book, and indeed at times the prose takes on a sort of glazed, strained quality as Mrs. Wax's inspiration wanes.
This makes for a very strained and different sort of time than they had expected.
But there was something else, too, something just this side of ineffable: a relentlessness in pursuit of every last ball, driven by you could glimpse it in his strained facial muscles a sort of anxious fear of not getting there.
The work may be a minor sort of jape, but its funny, spooky intelligence stands out in an ambience of strained ambition.
This seems right to me, but it still strikes me as strained to call this sort of procedural knowledge a plan.
