Sentence examples for the 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.

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.

This was made all the more evident by the straining of his regular vocal accomplice, Lisa Fischer, who had the unenviable task of filling in for both Sting ("La Belle Dame Sans Regrets") and Mr. Bocelli ("Italia"), singing in awkward areas of her range.

This neurological phenomenon is called synaesthesia; if you don't have it, it sounds strange, like the straining of an overactive imagination.

He was feeling the strain of office.

The strain of misogyny obstructs the fun.

Devaluation can ease the strain of tariffs.

Then there was the strain of anthrax.

Politically, the strains of globalisation are twofold.