Sentence examples for straining to do from inspiring English sources

It's what every startup in Silicon Valley is straining to do.

Through the motions they went, straining to do their level best.

Often, straining to do things bigger and louder doesn't hide the hollowness inside; with the memory of a beloved old favourite hovering nearby, audiences feel it, too.

By not straining to do too much, and with much help from its appealing leads, it accomplishes more than you might expect (1 15).

The result, as noted throughout Part 2 of the report, is an organization straining to do too much with too little.

Viner's language is also full of rhetoric, such as "My spirit cries out beyond the black lace of trees into the night", suggesting the will straining to do the work of the imagination.

Her interviewees described in measured words how they strain to do too much with too little help.

And while emergency workers strained to do what they could, in at least one case, it was not enough.

In a time when our foresters are setting forest fires in Vietnam & our meteorologists are busy amking storms, & our bombs are equipped with television cameras, what we need to strain to do is to keep the impossible from occuring.

Recent previous emcees have strained to do one or the other in hopes of topping what came naturally to Billy Crystal.

PAJU, South Korea (Reuters) - The 15 male ballet students groaned as they strained to do the splits and laughed with relief after their teacher counted to five and let them relax.