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Sentence count:279+18Posted:2017-01-11Updated:2020-07-24
Synonym: agonisticconstrainedforcedlaboredlabouredSimilar words: unrestrainedgrainedstrainstraitenedtrainerconstrainconstrainttrainMeaning: [streɪnd]  adj. 1. lacking natural ease 2. under great stress 3. lacking spontaneity; not natural 4. struggling for effect. 
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151) Alvin had strained up to stare around him, resting on his pudgy elbows as if to survey the world.
152) However, the format seems strained in tackling less personal subjects.
153) Hostetler rejoined the lineup Sunday, after missing two games with strained ligaments in his right knee.
154) Brush cake with strained apricot jam and place marzipan on top.
155) Relations were already strained as a result of Likud's approach to US-sponsored Middle East peace effort.
156) His voice is high and strained, forced through his nose and those caverns which lurk under the cheekbones.
157) George Williams played his first game after suffering from a strained calf muscle and quite clearly didn't have his full movement.
158) He was upstanding all right: it almost strained his back muscles.
159) They were sentimental as could be, and the rhymes were strained, and the diction archaic.
160) Even before the outbreak of war relations between them were strained.
161) Our relationship became very strained because I had refused to lend him money.
162) Government finances are strained to the hilt dealing with essential services.
163) Her heart thumped with excitement, her ears strained at the approach of every car.
164) Former Manchester United reserve Paul Dalton is rated extremely doubtful with a strained thigh muscle.
165) The first substitution did not come until Richardson suffered a slightly strained right calf early in the fourth quarter.
166) Somehow,[http://sentencedict.com/strained.html] the mention of marriage has strained even the sweet pleasure we found in going steady.
167) But her whole body, strained and bruised as if he had beaten her, that was the monument to his reality.
168) They often looked very strained to Anna, as if they were holding on to their loyalty for dear life.
169) His face looked strained and petulant, but he had clearly decided to put his mortgage and proximity to Lesley-Jane above pride.
170) They infuse a sauce with a wonderful flavor, and they can be strained out of the sauce before serving if desired.
171) It made for a somewhat strained atmosphere, but as a company they were used to that.
172) In the brief lulls, my ears strained to catch the sound of the pigeon's soft, wheezy breathing.
173) There was a strained note in Fischer's normally relaxed voice.
174) This strained family relationships[sentencedict.com], especially those of Committee members when unpopular decisions had to be made.
175) All the strained confusions of the night are over, all the sleepless impatience to get on with the job.
176) Pour strained oil into an earthenware, ovenproof pot large enough to hold rabbit and all liquid called for in recipe.
177) At half-past five he leant closer to the window and strained to see into the flat opposite.
178) Shackled to an oar, she strained in a galley as an oiled mountain of flesh beat a huge drum.
179) He strained backward and he was so frightened that they had a difficult time holding him.
180) But the argument over financial modernization need not be strained solely through that narrow funnel.
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