Sentence examples for strained laugh from inspiring English sources

She gives a strained laugh.

"Mikhail Borisovich," she said, with a strained laugh, "we need to talk — especially before your trip to America!" For a prisoner of conscience, Khodorkovsky did not have an especially principled youth.

"That's true," he answers, with a strained laugh, "but it's easier to find carne de segundo (second-grade meat) than it is to find carne de primero (first-grade meat)." Ramón offers to take me to see where he purchases beef.

Further, three types of laughs (funny laughs, bitter laughs, forced laughs) were identified.

Considering all these storm clouds, it is a huge surprise that "Imagine That" plays so much better than its strained premise and hideous, overdone laugh track make it sound.

Huston looked astonished and, after a moment laughed in a strained way.

(Isherwood)20091119 'THE UNDERSTUDY' Julie White fabricates bountiful laughs from a sumptuous display of strained nerves in Theresa Rebeck's scattershot backstage comedy, which also stars Justin Kirk ("Weeds") and Mark-Paul Gosselaar ("Saved by the Bell") as actors on far different levels of the showbiz totem pole (1 30).

With near-deadly intervals between laughs the norm here, this awkward attempt at humor becomes a strained substitute for genuinely funny dialogue, a sure sign of a playwright struggling to find her comic voice.

No more strained pulp!

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Parker has a strained hamstring.