Synonym: agonistic, constrained, forced, labored, laboured. Similar words: unrestrained, grained, strain, straitened, trainer, constrain, constraint, train. Meaning: [streɪnd] adj. 1. lacking natural ease 2. under great stress 3. lacking spontaneity; not natural 4. struggling for effect.
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211) I strained my ears and listened intently.
212) Let's straighten out their strained relations.
213) The rope was strained to a breaking point.
214) Her greeting was cold and strained.
215) She looked a little pale and strained.
216) He felt strained and mean and incompetent under the circumstances.
217) Ge Si strained layers were characterized with double crystal X ray diffraction, secondary ion mass spectroscopy and spreading resistance. The Ge content in the epilayers was found to be homogeneous.
218) They strained their credit in order to defray expenses that are ( not ) of prime necessity.
219) You've strained a muscle that gives some support to the arch of your foot (the muscle runs from the shin bone around the ankle and attaches behind the ball of the foot). You probably have flat feet.
220) The test shows that this kind of instrument is high antimicrophonic so it can detect effectively any growing defect in strained members and show exactly the spot of the defect.
221) Mr. Schwarzenegger also said federally mandated spending of state money has further strained California's coffers.
222) We fabricated tilted buried stripe semiconductor optical amplifier by tensile strained InGaAs bulk active region.
223) His interpretations on history are far less strained than those of Motley.
224) Well,[sentencedict.com] he certainly must have strained himself to get this menagerie together.
225) Laryngotrachea tissues from the fowl dead by fowl pox of diphtheritic type were dissected, fixed, embedded, strained and ultrastructural changes of morphology were observed by EMS.
226) Everyone felt aimless, with a kind of strained and aching relief.
227) Therefore, it is a significant issue to evaluate the strain relaxation and lattice mismatch in these strained silicon - germanium hetero- epitaxial layers.
228) They strained the cover over the top of the tent.
229) Wang strained his right hamstring late in spring training, but he said he felt normal Tuesday.
230) He strained his eyes to catch a glimpse of the famous movie star.
231) I behold, with strained peripheral vision, the nave and aisles that hold 14,000 worshippers.
232) " Only after the fact did I realise that I had said the words penis and vagina and sex in a strained, sotto voce tone.
233) He strained his eyes to penetrate beyond the thick cloud of dust.
234) Separate confinement heterostructure strained single quantum well materials were grown by the technology of metal organic chemical vapor deposition(MOCVD).
235) The main work is focused on models of hole scattering mechanisms and hole mobility which is related to the crystal orientations and stress of strained Si.
236) He strained his eyes to catch a glimpse of the President.
237) If you're using a cone-shaped filter, set it in a funnel over a container that is large enough to hold the strained liquid.
238) A complication is that the films are strained and epitaxial, with hardly any defects.
239) Finally the computational problem of such deformation is reduced to solve a set of nonlinear algebraic equations related to the strained configuration of the radial tire.
240) To wash yourself or your dishes, carry water 200 feet away from streams or lakes and use small amounts of biodegradable soap. Scatter strained dishwater.