Sentence examples for start to strain from inspiring English sources

It has a false start and a terrible ending, a few saccharine scenes and a joker whose recurring appearances start to strain.

If your eyes start to strain as you as thumb-out words like "sovereign" or "erroneous" on the two-inch screen, a video-out port lets you plug it into your TV.

"Circle Mirror Transformation," the play that arose from this study, follows a six-week small-town acting class whose members progress through a series of drama exercises — reciting one another's biographies in the first person, improvising sentences one word at a time — and, in the process, reveal so much that their relationships start to strain and change.

If you spend hours at the computer staring at a screen, your eyes will start to strain and grow tired.

Your hand may start to strain at the beginning, but just take a break and try again later.

That mythology, though, starts to strain when you add dependent human beings to the mix.

"They've grown so fast that it's starting to strain their resources.

The "war on women" rhetoric was starting to strain credulity a little.

They are exuberant, learned, modern, funny, and also, in narrative terms, followable, though already starting to strain at the joins.

Certainly the film loses its way ever so slightly in the third act, where it starts to strain for resolution.

It is also because the unionists' relentlessly gloomy predictions for an independent Scotland are starting to strain credulity.