Sentence examples for strained air from inspiring English sources

The fact that the nation's aviation system is overwhelmed at crucial choke points is a source of tremendous frustration to travelers, and it poses safety challenges to a strained air traffic control system.

The nominee luncheon is known for strained bonhomie — air kisses and hidden daggers — and, just as in the junior high cafeteria, a focus on who sits where.

A strained atmosphere ensues.

Carol Loeb Shloss's strenuous, emotional attempt to fish Lucia up from the depths of incarceration and obliteration has to do battle with very weighty pressures, giving her book a strained, excitable, defiant air.

The corps de ballet men, largely represented in dance terms by the pirates, look less polished, their air slightly strained while pushing through technical demands.

Elsewhere, it assumes the air of a strained community theatre project, nudging and winking its way around anything remotely phallic.

Strained relations between the Federal Aviation Administration and air traffic controllers have further complicated matters.

When I visited recently, I could hear sticks as they whipped through the air and cracked on strained, burdened flesh.