strained

How To Use strained In A Sentence

• She hadn't seen Kenta much, but when she had in the last week he had been smiling nervously and in a strained manner.
• 'The first principles of commercial activity have retreated to earth's maziest penetralia, where no tides are! is it not so, Skepsey?' said Mr. Fenellan, whose initiative and exuberance in loquency had been restrained by a slight oppression, known to guests; especially to the guest in the earlier process of his magnification and illumination by virtue of a grand old wine; and also when the news he has to communicate may be a stir to unpleasant heaps. Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith
• We would expand the Smart award scheme for small companies which has been constrained by funding resources.
• For the late fifth and early sixth centuries, however, he was less constrained.
• There was a strained silence for a while and then in the distance there was a clap of thunder.
• She was looking strained and had dark circles beneath her eyes.
• Fitch cautioned that the country's sovereign ratings remained constrained by relatively low levels of external liquidity as well as what it described as formidable social and structural challenges. ANC Daily News Briefing
• Liberal proponents of American Values praise the freedom that opens the floodgates to gay marriage and pornography; conservatives, the liberty unleashing that locust plague called unrestrained capitalism; neo-conservatives the license for lying, murderous Machtpolitik. Founding Fathers vs. Church Fathers
• They will drink their wretched heartless stuff, such as they call claret, or wine of Medoc, or Bordeaux, or what not, with no more meaning than sour rennet, stirred with the pulp from the cider press, and strained through the cap of our Betty. Lorna Doone
• Even when talking in the most restrained of voices, Hugo's lilt would still rise up above all others.