Straining in example sentence

The crisis is now affecting not just all of Syria’s immediate neighbors, straining their resources and exacerbating social and ethnic tensions; it now directly involves all of the current permanent members of the Security Council except China.

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And it's like your eyes start straining to see themselves.

Another son, Ryan, is keeping up this constant stream of abuse from the kitchen, and the dogs are locked behind the bedroom door and straining.

Egyptians enjoyed goats’ milk cottage cheese, straining the whey with reed mats.

Sometimes she was convinced she heard voices whispering and the contents rattling around inside, as if straining to be free.

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