Sentence examples for straining to make from inspiring English sources

I sat at a nearby table, straining to make out the conversation.

Soon, the guest is straining to make her talk too, but gives up soon enough.

Partly it's his tone of voice, sometimes exasperated, as if straining to make his case.

("I was Episcopalian, he was a Mormon," she said Tuesday night, straining to make an affinity sound like an impediment).

He documents them exhaustively with audio, video and photographic evidence, like a lawyer straining to make a case.

Straining to make his voice heard over the heckling, he thanked everybody who had come to clear up.

He doesn't strain to make up the difference, either.

Throughout history, Harrington rightly argues, people have strained to make "personal sense" of illness and suffering.

The Bush administration has strained to make Saddam and Osama teammates in terror.

Yet the music does not strain to make the imagery explicit.

He doesn't have to strain to make the audience believe that he is catnip to women.