Sentence examples for strained talk from inspiring English sources

As the crisis in Ukraine has deepened over recent months and Moscow's relations with the West have become ever more strained, talk of nuclear war has been looming large in the Russian media.

There was still some weird tension between the foster siblings, which they handled with awkward jokes and strained small talk.

Shukria Siddiqui, raised as a boy but then abruptly plunged into an arranged marriage, struggled to adapt, tripping over the confining burqa and straining to talk to other women.

In his books, Obama emerges not as the personification of cool projected onto him by his young adherents — or as the disdainful élitist suggested by his offhand remark about a "bitter" working class — but as something of a square: someone who doesn't have to strain to talk about "values," God, and family.

The general appeared before his troops--skinny, hairless, straining to talk above a murmur--but it didn't matter.

The announcement by Speaker John A. Boehner that Republicans would not settle for the $33 billion in cuts that Senate Democrats and the White House have portrayed as the agreed-upon middle ground in the spending fight added a new complication to already-strained talks between House negotiators and the Senate leadership.

Reilly's words were strained as he talked and propelled himself along the course.

Ties with America are strained over nuclear talks with the Islamic Republic.

Relations between Barton and the club have been strained after contract talks broke down, leading to the 28-year-old airing his frustrations on Twitter .

Later, I passed by that same clerk, and I strained to hear him talking.

People still let Drake down — on this album, he talks about strained business-personal relationships on "Tuscan Leather," and returns a few times to the subject of women he's loved who've moved on and found happiness elsewhere.