Sentence examples for started to strain from inspiring English sources

This is rapidly overtaking earlier concerns about the price of oil, which had started to strain the ability to keep aloft without raising ticket prices.

The family started to strain to make $2,000 monthly payments on a loan that, even at the best of times, "was a little bit beyond our means," Mr. Janson said.

Then, as the Dutch started to lose their colonies — mostly to the British — and population growth started to strain resources, the country's golden age ended and a new frugality took hold.

Relationships started to strain between the President of the United States and the rapper after Obama slammed West for interrupting Taylor Swift's acceptance speech at the MTV VMAs in 2009 (the famed "Now Ima let you finish…" diatribe, for those who need reminding).

Indeed, this second episode started to strain under the weight of the series' all-encompassing ambition.

"Where it started to strain … was when he started to focus on his artistry and him being not only the president and CEO but now an artist on the label," Parker admitted.

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.

The last revelations are so grim that credibility starts to strain.

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