Sentence examples for strained i from inspiring English sources

Our relationship is strained: I fear we need therapy.

"I'm strained, I'm drained," he said, at the halfway mark.

Head of media at Christian Aid, former Sunday-Times journalist Andrew Hogg, agrees that the relationship between reporters and aid workers can be unnecessarily strained: "I've spoken to journalists who think we're the enemy – that aid agencies are trying to pull the wool over their eyes, that just isn't the case.

In particular, a piezoelectric material has the ability of creating an inherent electric field when strained (i.e., direct piezoelectric effect).

Not the spring dawn: I strained, I suffered, I was delivered.

With ears strained, I listened, and then, all down our line of trenches there came to our ears a greeting unique in war: "English soldier, English soldier, a merry Christmas, a merry Christmas!" Friendly invitation Following that salute boomed the invitation from those harsh voices: "Come out, English soldier; come out here to us".

It's also done on a doggedly small scale, provoking the same strained, I-see-what-you-tried-to-do-there smiles as a school play.

He added, with an expression of strained sincerity, "I am sorry for that".

Jiri doesn't entirely escape Ledgard's strained ventriloquism ("I feel as an okapi must under a Czechoslovian sky"), but his narrative is moving, fully imagined and restrained, despite the bloody grotesqueness of what he performs and describes.

Then she was sold, say the press releases, to become a floating hotel, permanently tied (with strained lines, I imagine) to a tourist dock in Dubai.

The strained tomatoes I salted and brought to the simmer with a handful of basil leaves (use whatever herb you used with the cherry tomatoes); I then turned off the fire.