Sentence examples for to strain from inspiring English sources

It causes necks to strain.

Vann had to strain to control himself.

Editors had to strain for new angles.

At times Mr. Smith seems to strain a bit.

It was not, to strain a joke, declamatory.

Kimora Lee Simmons didn't have to strain to reveal anything.

She was a Christian Lacroix pouf, to strain the analogy.

Well, I don't want to strain myself.

For relatively small stresses, stress is proportional to strain.

Use a fine-meshed sieve to strain into a saucepan.

I realize I haven't seen the old muslin bag we use to strain the juice.