Similar words: constraining, training, retraining, basic training, raining, draining, straightening, maintaining. Meaning: [streɪn] n. 1. an intense or violent exertion 2. the act of distorting something so it seems to mean something it was not intended to mean. adj. taxing to the utmost; testing powers of endurance.
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61. Instead, they were straining at the bits, and the handler had to restrain them.
62. Take hold of your top leg by the ankle and pull back the leg as far as possible without straining.
63. He stared at the topknot of red-gold curls, straining to remember.
64. But defender Andy Barlow will be sidelined for a month after straining a calf muscle in training.
65. On this page we add a post-script to the Century by straining the readers' credulity still further! 1.
66. Here the daggerboard is straining to stop the board slipping sideways.
67. In flood conditions, however, brimming reservoirs sometimes spill more water than downstream rivers can handle, thus straining the levees.
68. The passengers standing in line, straining to get out, stared enviously when Cantor was asked to deplane first.
69. Raise the arms towards the toes, lifting the head and shoulders off the floor as far as possible without straining.
70. It's like when you increase the tension on a spring: the pressure is straining to be released.
71. He poured an inch of condensed milk into the mug plus four spoons of sugar and stirred the coffee before straining it.
72. Even so, it is straining credulity too far to conclude that the debtor has an arguable case.
73. Could this huge array be supplied without straining to breaking-point the thin lifeline?
74. Daisy had brought her sketch pad, but found it difficult to capture the action and hold on to a straining Ethel.
75. She found she was straining her ears for the musical clang of the town church bells.
76. His face had turned a bluish-yellow and his stomach was swollen, straining against the thin linen shirt.
77. We crowded round the table, straining our ears for the magic sounds, while Robert adjusted the cat's whisker.
78. The straining bearers like a string quartet, taking the burden up in unison, at a nod from their leader?
79. Lying on your tummy with elbows pointing outwards, slowly raise the head and shoulders off the floor without straining.
80. From Payson to Yuma to Sierra Vista, the pace of growth is straining the resources and special character of small towns.
81. The sun has been out for a while after straining hard through moody skies and my skin is warming.
82. He then enclosed it in a transparent box which he provided with a mechanism for straining the specimen in bending.
83. I wore my dark glasses even for these few moments, as my blue eyes were always straining in the brilliant light.
84. This chess game works on all graphics boards and the pieces are drawn well soas to avoid straining the eye.
85. It does not matter what method of straining is chosen if it can determine A1 since the volume is a representative one.
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86. His bladder was full to straining, and there was no catheter-tube in the DeLorean.
87. This first fence would run right over the top of the hill, and needed a straining post at either end.
88. She wrapped herself around him like a clam in formation, her body one big muscle, straining.
89. She was straining against her chain with her lips curled over her teeth and her ears pinned back.
90. This observation could explain why straining is often ineffective in promoting normal defecation even in low spinal patients with intact abdominal musculature.
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