Sentence examples for strain himself from inspiring English sources

England have had the territorial advantage for the last 10 minutes or so, without causing Viera to strain himself in the Uruguay goal.

DeMarinis, whose last novel was "The Mortician's Apprentice," doesn't strain himself to pull the sinister doings at La Siberia into a coherent plot, but he pumps plenty of black-comedy gusto into his renegade hero's academic breakdown and moral recovery.

SoHo Through July 14 Toru Hayashi, a Japanese artist who has lived in New York since 1990, has a sharp mind and a wonderful feeling for materials, but his second exquisitely reduced solo show creates the impression that he is taking care not to strain himself.

79 min: Die strained himself while taking that shot a moment ago, and now he's gone down again.

Having suffered months of chest pain, which he attributed to straining himself at the gym, John, a family doctor, finally went to his own doctor and declared, "I have lymphoma, I need a scan".

Everyone told him to take it easy, complaining that he looked too gaunt and seemed to be straining himself.

While the editors he pays have been busting a gut trying to top the puns they invented last year for poor Doctor (Liam) Fox, Rupert Murdoch spent his time at the Leveson Inquiry straining himself not to remember.

Her son is eager to train with her, but Birath says he often strains himself trying to lift the same weights as his mother.

Vann had to strain to control himself.

At times, the son seemed to strain to define himself as different from his father.

Clearly spotlighted up front, never having to strain, is Mr. King himself, addressing the blues eternals of love, hard times and death -- sometimes all three, as in Howlin' Wolf's "How Many More Years".