Sentence examples for you strained from inspiring English sources

Eiii-dee, eiii-dee — like a gull's cry borne on the wind, rising and snatched away, even as you strained desperately to hear it.

Had you strained your ears in New York on Monday night you might just have heard the sound of a thousand theatre critics cracking their knuckles in relish.

Even without sets, props or magic aural box, "Fama" amounted to intensely potent theater, at times taking on positively hallucinatory effect as you strained to discern what instrument might conceivably be producing this unfamiliar sound or that oblique effect.

And, if you strained your ears, the occasional buzz of a distant moto ridden by a youth briefly taking a break from the local tradition of eating crisps in a bus stop.

I've never seen that before, except on Capitol Hill during the Petraeus hearings: Don Pardo was totally micless, and for the first show of the season, there was no voice saying "It's Saturday Night Live!" Cast members flitted by unannounced until Seth Myers, though if you strained you could hear the faintest calls of "Bill Hader and Darrell Hammondond" in the distance.

You may discard the solids that you strained out with the cheesecloth.

And eventually, you get to the point where you strain it".

The more you strain to see them, the more they shrivel into darkness.

You strain to hit your highest note, pleading with your performance: "Please, please accept me!

"If you strain your neck and look carefully enough, to the west you can see Alaska".

Through drooping eyelids, you strain to concentrate on the flashing lights and glimpses of workers hunched over machinery.