Sentence examples for straining of from inspiring English sources

The life of the mind should not be sidetracked by the straining of muscle.

The Melbourne Cup is harder to dismiss because millions of us eagerly watch the straining of the horses.

The leather was burnished to a rich gloss by the straining of a thousand sweaty wrists on a thousand other agonized nights.

Elsewhere Mr. Lidell sounds vaguely Stevie Wonderish, or like a less dogmatically rigorous Raphael Saadiq; in "Big Drift" he weirdly evokes the grungy straining of Chris Cornell.

"Looking down at a laptop for extended periods can lead to repetitive straining of the neck muscles, which can cause neck and shoulder pain as well as tension headaches," says Allardyce.

The books are deeply creepy and utterly compelling, but they also deal fearlessly with some genuinely challenging subject matter, including bereavement, isolation and the painful straining of a relationship between two siblings who've come to depend on one another.

The day was loud with wind and sea and gulls, the straining of the anchored quay, and at our backs the honking cars, the muttered prayers, the clapping hands, the less than half-regarded heavens of the town.

Mechanical straining of suspended graphene films leads to confinement of charge carriers into quantum dots.

Resistance versus strain plots of the sample under (b) simple stretching and (c) mixed straining of bending and stretching.

During vesicle membrane fusion, straining of lipids at the edges of an extended contact zone may initiate fusion.

However, peak stresses tend to develop near the overlap edges because of differential straining of the adherends and load asymmetry.