Sentence examples for strained expressions from inspiring English sources

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.

This May-September duo whizzed past me the other day, Auntie loaded into the sports car, muffled to the gills, hands clutching the side of the car, Debbie hunched grimly over the steering wheel, strained expressions on both their faces.

"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.

But the view of her assistant in the background, crouching over a long table which is heavily peppered with half shells of woven straw, trailing ribbons and spirals of taffeta flowers, as if a little girl's dressing box had spontaneously combusted, suggests the primary reason for Jenks's strained expression: Ascot, presumably the high holy day of hat-makers, begins tomorrow.

"Did you give me your home phone number?" asked Foxy, a moment later, a strained expression on his face.