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83 examples of Straining in a sentence

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.
Straining the ocean for plastic would be beyond the budget of any country and it might kill untold amounts of sea life in the process.
He is pretty decent but looks like he is straining to carry the film.
It must be said that the acting and interpretation is most heavily polluted by the TV-generated trend to speak in a severely muffled voice, not moving lips, straining tones, as emerged in the "That's real life"-productions and "Let's-raise-our audience-with-a-few-tears"-screen-playwriting.
When I go to see a movie about zombie's, I'm not expecting oscar calibre performances, or writing on the level of The Godfather, but I do expect the actors to at least not look like their straining to read their cue cards, and dialogue that doesn't sound like it was typed out 10 minutes before the actor reads it into the camera.
If you like watching pretentious and spoiled poets straining to outwit each other, this may be right up your alley.
I found myself straining to find anything to laugh at just so I wouldn't feel like I'd totally wasted my money--and my time.
A setting ripe with atmosphere and possibility (an abandoned convent) is squandered by a stinker of a script filled with clunky, witless dialogue that's straining oh-so-hard to be hip.
I would have given it a one, but there were brief moments when you could see the actors really really straining to make this worthwhile.
This is so very rare for a 'guy's action flick' that even I [who thinks most A/A is violent pap] liked the film and have recommended it to every guy I know.....it's a shame this one was overlooked because by rights it should have been one of the biggest action-adventure box office hits -- it has something for everyone without straining credulity or losing the nearly non-stop action moments.
I always hated Chevalier's awful accent (half the time you're straining to try and make sense of what he's saying), but as a rule his lighthearted acting makes it bearable.
Plenty of T & A, shower scenes, and full breasts straining against flimsy cotton blouses in this beyond-belief exploitation film.
I spent a lot of time straining to make out various details like character faces and locales.
They actually hook up, straining credibility.
Meanwhile, their neighbors are straining under the weight of the crisis.
It has become fashionable in both America and Europe to point to a debilitating “lack of leadership,” which underscores the extent to which an inherently complex paradigm change is straining traditional mindsets, processes, and governance systems.
But it has nothing to do with the significance and complexity of the tectonic historical forces now grinding their way forward, straining – and beginning to tear asunder – the region’s political landscape.
Economic growth at that pace exceeds the expansion of aggregate supply, straining resource use and prodding the Federal Reserve to continue along its path of gradual interest-rate renormalization.
The stakes at the conference are thus exceptionally high, both for Syria and for its neighbors, which are straining against severe destabilization.
The aging population is straining the public pension and healthcare systems beyond sustainability.
The consequences extended beyond economics and finance, straining regional political arrangements, amplifying national political dysfunction, and fueling the rise of anti-establishment parties and movements.
For Central Americans, the cost of drugs will soar, straining budgets and gutting health care.
But a stagnant global economy is straining health-care budgets to the breaking point.
Across developed and developing countries, violation of the public trust and failure to protect democratic institutions are straining systems of checks and balances that, in some cases, have been in place for centuries.
Rather than strengthening democracy, Najib has chosen to increase cash handouts, straining government finances with a $10 billion expansion of a race-based affirmative-action program that favors Malays.
The moral case for a wealth tax is more compelling than usual today, with unemployment still at recession levels, and with deep economic inequality straining social norms.
Manufacturing growth has turned sluggish, and the fiscal deficit has risen above 5% of GDP, gravely straining the economy.
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