Sentence examples for visibly strained from inspiring English sources

After a month of this, Mr Mitchell, visibly strained by the assault, did as they demanded.Yet the Channel 4 report casts considerable doubt on the police account of "plebgate".

His flirtation with the camera, his coasting through the final meters while his competitors visibly strained to their utmost, all of this is what sets Bolt apart to his adorers.

"We took those very legitimate concerns very seriously," said Hrbek, still visibly strained.

However, reporters at the event described the two presidents' interactions as visibly strained.

"That baby is solid," exclaimed Hilsenteger while visibly straining to bend the Moto X. "No noises, no movement; that is a robust device".

The two fiascoes are twin parables, really — each one illustrates how a desire for reverence leads easily to ridicule, and how, when you visibly strain to perform your identity for an audience, the audience often rebels.

The drummers — including Mr. Chase and Shahin Motia, who also plays in Oneida and Ex Models — were visibly straining, giving the show a painful but exhilarating urgency as it went on.

Asked in a videotaped interview shortly before her death what she wanted to say to her attackers, Ms. Makar, visibly straining against the pain, said she hoped they would be raped in prison.

"Are you on the first floor or the second floor?" "Why in hell are you asking that for?" "Is it a good time to talk?" "Just send the text to me, you're not allowed to ring!" "Is anything wrong?" Yuan Qi was visibly straining not to be rude as he replied.

ABC News and CNN have both run features, though they're visibly straining for news pegs — CNN's is that one of the ads features the voice of actor Alan Rickman, who died in January.

At times it is visibly being strained for: at Ferndale, in northern California, the land of the redwoods, lies Knud Hansen, laid to rest there in 1904,...a Woodman of the World a sonorous phrase of no obvious meaning whatever.