Sentence examples for strained look from inspiring English sources

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

without appearing physically strained look at you as if wondering what sort of performance enhancing supplements you've been guzzling.

Maybe it's the strained look of your country weekend houseguests, bent over and hobbling on the way in to breakfast.

"Don't you remember...?" he would ask with a pained voice, a strained look about the eyes, having temporarily forgotten that you can't really remember things from before around the age of 3. "Pity," he would say.

Another sits in a contorted manner supporting the weight on his elbow, while another figure squats with his knees wide apart and a strained look on his face.

For example, he'd long cultivated a tendency to pause with a kind of strained look, as if groping for words, gathering strength, before coming out with some mellifluous pronouncement; observing this, one counselor noted that he seemed "on the verge of belching" and was "very impressed with self".

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Seated across from her, I was able to look beyond her strained face to the back of her head, the back of her blouse collar showing through her hair, the top of her shoulder blades.

Conservatives and a mounting sea of anti-Obama Americans, were treated to the strained, pained look on Obama's face while he complimented a man I'm sure he hates.

But when she looks at her baby, her strained face softens and becomes beautiful again.

But a good look of rusty shackles, and the strained face of a beloved personality like LeVar Burton put a dent to that white comfort.