Sentence examples for strained expression from inspiring English sources

"No," she said, with a strained expression.

A strained expression overtook his movements as he struggled with some opponent.

She stands a little back with a fond but slightly strained expression, not unlike a mother of several unruly children.

From the vantage point of outside the window you could see her talking brightly to a neighbor — brightly but with a strained expression.

It was the strained expression of an athlete desperate to win, who sensed for a moment that victory might slip away.

We look today at the tall, wiry frame, sometimes bearing that strained expression when things are not going well, at others more urbane, with a ready wry smile and dry one-liner.

Other Muslims I know had hunched shoulders and strained expressions: they knew that blowback was on the way.

Somewhere around 30 seconds into Jeremy's speech: a sort of hush descends as the Leader starts off on a rather odd oratory journey, broken up by nervous swallowing, breathless unwieldy sentences that are hard to follow and sometimes impossible to establish as having ended, delivered with strained expressions by a man who doesn't look, or sound, particularly comfortable.

His face has a singularly peaceful and calm expression, the strained look of tension is gone.

The most prominent features of pain in dementia patients are challenging behaviour, such as vocalizations (crying, screaming), noisy breathing, facial expressions (e.g. grimacing), restless or strained body expressions, aggressiveness and resistance to care [ 7, 8].

But he should beware of strained facial expressions.