straining

IPA: strˈeɪnɪŋ

Examples of "straining" in Sentences

If you call straining a man's throat until he's hoarse, hailing, I believe I did.
Most of the recruits clutch duffel bags to their chests, straining from the effort.
You will agree with me that, without straining the text, the English word STRA and the
You will agree with me that, without straining the text, the English word stra and the French one Austral may relate to Australia.
But then I could actually feel my unconscious brain straining to generate fractal landscapes as I flew, and start to realize that it was just a dream.
They were guilty of not advertising that anything untoward was afoot, although they did steal glances up to their captain straining through the binoculars.
Just how popular the act was is difficult to ascertain – one can hardly imagine theater patrons straining from the far rows of a venue to make sense of the various parakeets hopping around on a stage.
Protestantism involves a certain straining for an idealized first century Church, as if that was real Christianity and all sects today are merely pale reflections trying and failing to duplicate the first century Church by studying the New Testament and reenacting what they read.