Sentence examples for strained correspondence from inspiring English sources
He leaves his brilliant, devoted wife, Bea, back on Earth, and a great deal of the novel is made up of their increasingly strained correspondence.
The wily French foreign minister, Vergennes, was understandably eager to deal only with Franklin, and by July 1780 he had exchanged enough strained correspondence with Adams that he felt justified in sending him a stinging letter that declared, "The king did not stand in need of your solicitations to direct his attentions to the interests of the United States".
Roiphe, who reviewed the e-mail exchanges between McGinn and the student, and interviewed both McGinn and the student's boyfriend, who spoke on her behalf, wrote that their correspondence doesn't reveal one-sided threatening remarks but, rather, a "strange, strained, but avid and affectionate rapport".
She gives a strained laugh.
A strained relationship existed betw.
Parker has a strained hamstring.
Willing if strained service.
The correspondence is striking.
