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.
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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91. She carries a small but distinct belly, which is straining the red material of the skirt.
92. His ceaseless straining after brilliant epigrams quickly becomes irritating.
93. The rapper was straining for street credibility.
94. The dog was straining at his leash.
95. The dog is straining at its lead.
96. Today we are overpopulated, straining the earth's resources.
97. He's always straining at a gnat.
98. The boy was straining at stool.
99. Her attitude, though perfectly natural for an Eastern woman would, in a European, have been deemed too full of coquettish straining after effect.
100. Hernias can develop at these sites due to heavy straining, aging, injury or following an infection at that site following surgery.
101. Objective To provide morphologic data for acupotomologic therapy of the vertebra occipital muscles straining.
102. Melanie hung onto it as life line, straining , pulling it taut, slackening it[sentencedict.com], tearing it.
103. He can carry 150 jin on a pole without straining himself.
104. The Yukon was straining to break loose the ice that bound it down.
105. The utility model uses the semiconductor straining sheet sensor as a force element and adopts liquid crystal to direct display the value of the measuring force.
106. Although unemployment is low, rapid job losses among Japan's army of temporary workers are exposing the unfairness of a two-tier labour market and straining an egalitarian society.
107. This gradual increase will yield the best muscle building results without overly straining your body.
108. The present invention reveals a method for producing straining silicon complementary metal oxide semiconductor transistor.
109. The carts rattle by, swinging from side to side; two Chinamen lollop along under their wooden yokes with the straining vegetable baskets–their pigtails and blue blouses fly out in the wind.
110. Yes, a funny four years. And inside himself he is straining.
111. The dog straining at the leash to be let loose again.
112. A new noise came from the engines a straining, gasping sound.
113. For many young Iranians who are straining under double-digit inflation and social repression, the notion that a gilded and privileged son of royalty would take his own life came as its own shock.
114. The microstructure in shot-peening surface plastic straining layer of several softening and hardening materials are investigated.
115. I think he swore: but I didn't mind him, I was straining to see the bairn,' and she began again to describe it rapturously. Sentencedict.com
116. If learning and gentility are signs of civilization, perhaps our almost-big brains are straining against their residual atavism, struggling to expand.
117. These fishing boats are straining across no man's lands, where a flooded Grey River met a violent Tasman Sea.
118. Heaven knew, Madame Blanche was straining every nerve to have her again!
119. He's very slow at this work because he's always straining at a gnat.
120. 'I think he swore:I didn't mind him, I was straining to see the bairn, 'she began again to describe it rapturously .
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