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.
He strove so hard to rival Holding that he strained stomach muscles in the Kingston Test against England in 1981.
There are many adjectives routinely used to describe jazz fusion, but ‘restrained’ isn't one of them.
His dark hair was matted with sweat, his expression strained and empty, the expression of release. Strangers In the Night
The tone of his poetry is restrained and unemotional.
I barely restrained myself from hitting him.
He said neither of the stars wished to be seen by their public behaving in an unrestrained manner, which is what happens at events such as weddings.
Intense deforestation is constrained to the few roads that do exist or around urban centers such as Iquitos, Puerto Maldonado, and Rio Branco. Southwest Amazon moist forests
When the beans are cold he stirred in more fresh dill and enough strained Greek yoghurt to bind them into a soft dip.
The family dog Jasper, a brown spotted Dalmatian, strained at his lead as master and family passed by.
The necessity of the case demands what you call a strained ideal. The Odd Women
Private insurers are charged with implementing and administrating the elements of care that are funded out of the payroll tax, but those elements create a very tight, constrained sandbox for premium-driven short-term insurance to play in. Matthew Yglesias » What It’s All About
Flexible muscles are far less likely to be strained or pulled than tight ones.
Carling strained a thigh muscle in Dunedin and Bayfield ended that match on a stretcher with a neck seizure.
You also have to specify column types in a relational system, so you might find yourself constrained by, say, the length of the address field.
My talk with the old Dutchman, and the lies to which I was constrained, had already given me a sense of how my conduct must appear to others; and now, after the strong admiration I had just experienced and the immoderacy with which I had continued my vain purchases, I began to think of it myself as very hazarded. David Balfour, a sequel to Kidnapped.
And we would feel constrained to confess ourselves poor diagnosticians if George Bernard Shaw, the enfant terrible of nimble wit in contemporaneous literature, succeeded in disproving the existence in himself of the same strain of blood as coursed in the veins of Heinrich Heine. The Social Disability of the Jew
Quantitative growth ring analysis of fossil woods may be used only in well-constrained paleoecological studies where taxonomic and climatic sources of variability can be controlled, and additionally, of course, as a qualitative tool in paleoclimatic and paleoecological analyses. Supplementary Comments to NAS Panel « Climate Audit
It is widely taken that the maximum value of the voltage transfer ratio of AC-AC matrix converter is 0.866, which has considerably restrained its application breadth.
They were restrained before being taken under arrest to St Aldate's Police station.
But their conduct was equally constrained by codes - a mixture of religious strictures and the social cant that went with it. Times, Sunday Times
The coconut is grated, strained and boiled to extract its oil.
But there was the usual reverent silence, broken by the occasional embarrassed cough or ripple of restrained applause.
But the calm and restrained people constitute the majority of the marchers.
When Rostnikov repeated that the primary evidence against Samsonov was the testimony of an Evenk shaman, Samsonov had to be restrained by Famfanoff who, surprisingly, found enough strength within his abused body to control the furious doctor. A Cold Red Sunrise
The milk is then strained and the grains recovered for reuse.
In other words, I am neither an anarchist who wants no government, namely unrestrained devitalization, nor a socialist, whose cry is for all government -- that is, restriction and rigidity. Piano Mastery Talks with Master Pianists and Teachers
From infancy through early adolescence, Semai children are largely unconstrained and free of external domination.
I thought I had simply overstrained myself during an exercise and that it would go away after a few days.
Whereas ITV News - with their love of the clunkiest graphics, doom-laden links and love of the dropped intro 'It was ...' - seems to make The Day Today look sober and restrained ... Back to you in the Studio Fiona. Cluck Cluck.
She strained her ears, but all she heard was the chirping of the birds and the buzzing song of the grasshoppers. A SHRINE OF MURDERS
Because of the universals I see, I'm much more interested in sociobiology, though -- the sense that evolution has formed our minds and thereby, in deep and powerful ways, constrained the types and shapes possible in human societies. EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: Gord Sellar
This expected slowdown appears to be largely due to mounting affordability pressures, which have increasingly constrained housing demand. Times, Sunday Times
One could argue that McNamara is exhibit A in my case against what Thomas Sowell would call the unconstrained vision, which holds that certain people have so much knowledge and moral strength that they should be given great power over the rest. Robert McNamara , Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
The difference will be exacerbated because birds, the most well-represented endotherms in the analysis, demonstrate constrained phenological plasticity due to photoperiodic induction of gonad maturation and migration, especially for long-distance migrants. The Guardian World News
But the analogy to the price system is badly strained.
In any case, the idea that variation is constrained by history is intrinsic to evolution, variations being modifications of what already exists in the line. A Disclaimer for Behe?
Until we embrace this belief our culture has little hope of surviving beyond its present state of unrestrained hostility.
His conception of a restrained aristocratic manliness is as applicable to the potentially hubristic - or tyrannical - prince as it is to the courtier.
She is the only one he wants and wants unrestrainedly. Sundome Book 5 » Manga Worth Reading
But she suddenly strained, stretching in two directions — toward the man with the bag full of cash, and toward the aching call tugging at her mind. Hunter,Healer[SequeltoTheSociety]
The atmosphere was very tense and strained. A Channel of Peace
As they grow up amid the emerging wave of nationalist fervor, their friendship becomes strained as they find themselves on opposite sides.
The Transportation Problem exists"more-for-less"paradox, which because the loose-constrained model has broadened the restriction, enlarged the feasible area, and bring new optimal solution.
‘I very much regret that I am constrained so to do,’ he said.
She nervously giggled but gave him a strained look craving an answer to her question.
Ten metres from the line I saw Ray, twisted to dip and strained my hamstring.
There was a strained silence and when Helen spoke again, her voice suddenly lacked its formerly friendly tone.
With the extraneous materials strained from the rock mantle, there was still a good core of iron, nickel, zinc, and copper.
Return the strained liquid to the saucepan and reduce to a thick syrup.
His goods are distrained, his children are crying with cold and hunger, and the very bed on which his sick wife is lying, is dragged from beneath her. Sketches by Boz
I prefer the restrained vista-framing, avenue-forming, gentle shapes of cylinders, spires and cones.
It is noteworthy that the New York Times, mouthpiece of the liberal wing of the political establishment, was far less restrained in its reaction.
The West Indies were constrained early in their chase by some healthy swing bowling aided by the overcast conditions.
Serve immediately strained into frozen martini glass and garnish with lemon twist or olive.
Only a few well-wrought action sequences may hold the reader's strained interest ... The Golden City by John Twelve Hawks: Book summary
Women are too often constrained by family commitments and by low expectations.
In the coming years, we will see that his ire, if anything, was far too restrained.
For some reason he felt constrained to lower his voice.
The last song is a vocally layered gem, featuring the organ in a far more restrained mood.
Jamie growled to himself and lifted his hands in a tense strained pose, ready to strangle.
The country's progress was constrained by a leader who refused to look forward.
Unless supplemented and constrained by minority rights, state nation-building is likely to be oppressive and unjust.
An easier alternate is using labneh, which is strained yoghurt having a cheeselike consistency. Archive 2008-05-01
Hutchinson is constrained by an Arkansas ballot initiative in his state to vote only for the term-limit measure voters there approved.
With only one room at our disposal it would seem to the uninitiated that the accommodation of the homestead must have been strained to bursting point; but "out-bush" every man carries a "bluey" and a mosquito net in his swag, and as the hosts slept under the verandah, and the guests on the garden paths, or in their camps among the forest trees, spare rooms would only have been superfluous. We of the Never-Never
The optimization model of multi-product inventory with chance constrained attributes based on behavioral portfolio theory is established, which are solved as well.
So much for the strategic plan and the visionaries who drafted it, not to mention subsequent strategic plans whose piffle is somewhat more restrained, but no more helpful.
By contrast, a Scottish artiste might play to sodden Glasgow shipwrights, a restrained middle class audience and a temperance rally in the same week.
But as Tirzah ran to kiss her brother, her mother restrained her: they were ‘unclean’ outcasts.
But the WEA leadership, uncomfortable with political comment, preferred a blanket adherence to official neutralism, exacerbating strained relations with their energetic editor, William Emrys Williams.
Margarita, as beautifull as the best: but yet so peevish, scornefull, and fantasticall, that she disdained any good advice given her; neyther could any thing be done, to cause her contentment; which absurd humors were highly displeasing to her husband: but in regard he knew not how to helpe it, constrainedly he did endure it. The Decameron
Ilse strained her memory, searching for a glimpse of his face somewhere.
He uses linen, cotton and cashmere and his textures combine opposites - they are soft and smart, worn but restrained.
Put strained liquid, sour cream, half coriander and grated Edam into a food processor or blender and whizz until smooth.
But after more than four years now, we are constrained to take a hard and serious look at the whole enterprise.
Moving out of the central, more restrained and mournful section into the reprise could perhaps need a little more direction, but the overall work is coherent, engaging and pays the listener well.
His voice wobbled with restrained emotion
He would hate being confined, constrained and any love he had for her would change over time if she asked that of him.
It tells us that there are things that SHOULD be "leashed" - held back, restrained, suppressed - that "leashing" such impulses is the normal state, and when that ceases to be, then something has gone wrong. The Kraalspace
Those scruples and that refinement against which he warned her, she herself thought might be overstrained, and to gratify unnecessary punctilio, the short period of existence be rendered causelessly unhappy. Cecilia
A beautiful song makes way for a restrained synth-led workout; it's a real tone-setter. Harangue the DJ: James Priestley
She looked rather strained and miserable.
It is true for intra-generational talk as well that speakers are not constrained to use Creole to respond to a Creole utterance.
Vacations when you have kids are somewhat constrained by necessity.
The activists reacted angrily and one had to be restrained. Times, Sunday Times
They strained at the ropes to balance the sails.
Jetlag is hitting and the ‘shanti welcome’ chai that you have been given in an unfired terracotta cup tastes as though it might have been strained through the undies of the old fella who helped carry in your bags.
This suggests an unconstrained loop shape, even in rather immature specimens of this form.
According to the lawsuit, Dr. Dre has not seen any royalties from his groundbreaking hit album The Chronic since 1996, the year he left the label due to a strained relationship with Knight. Hip Hop News | CurveHouse.com
He was expected to miss camp time with a strained oblique muscle, which didn't help his chances of making the roster.
It remains, indeed, a sublime mystery that Bach's exalted creative ideals appear to have been so little constrained by the limited means at his disposal.
The ice baths are not pleasant but it means his strained muscles will recover quicker. The Sun
The second sentence flows smoothly but contains the wonderfully effortful word strainedly. A Close Read
The club claims that the man behaved violently towards a Union officer who was collecting entrance fees and had to be restrained by security staff on hand.
But, heigho! some fly or other is the indispensable adjunct of every pot of ointment, and while I was still jumping for joy at having passed the steep barrier of such a Rubicon, there came a letter from Miss JESSIMINA which constrained me to cachinnate upon the wrong side of nose! Baboo Jabberjee, B.A.
The big man took the orders and worked the grill; his dwarflike forearms strained to reach the onions and fried eggs on the back hot plate. Let The Dead Lie
It was a small dog, about a foot high, the size constrained by the amount of silver wire Lirael could easily obtain. LIRAEL: DAUGHTER OF THE CLAYR
You, with your unrestrained laughter, your gift for delight, have taught us all to relax and to be part of the moment.
Elaine stood several feet away under an umbrella, her face pale and strained.
Asked why one heavy user ( "dweeb" was the term of art from the questioner) could slow an entire network, McSlarrow said that capacity is still primarily devoted to downstream information, but upstream capacity has been strained by the rise of peer-to-peer networks. C - Advertising News
Large families and the practice of partible inheritance strained lands that under the best circumstances could only sustain sparse populations.
Although Mumbai has a well developed public transport system that includes suburban rail and buses, the network is "overstrained" and so the city also sees a lot of car traffic, which affects air quality. How Green Are India's Cities?
He strained his eyes in the poor light, trying to read the labels on the cans of food - bake beans, canned spaghetti, baby corn, pumpkin soup and beetroot.
When the intelligence becomes powerless to command and to say what and when and how the affections shall disport themselves, then man becomes a slave to his heart and is led like an ass by the nose hither and thither; and when nature thus runs unrestrained and wild, it makes for the mudholes of lust wherein to wallow and besot itself. Explanation of Catholic Morals A Concise, Reasoned, and Popular Exposition of Catholic Morals
Two more seed pearls hung from her ear lobes while a white silk hairband restrained her curly hair.
The earliest are a restrained palette of blues, whites, then a touch of sage-green, manganese purple, and finally the sealing-wax red of Armenian bole.
The other type loud and flamboyant, gregarious and unrestrained, life-loving and vigorous, passionate and strong.
The vanities of sovereignty had never any particular charm for Charles V.; he was not a man who cared "to monarchise and kill with looks," or who could feel a pang at parting with the bauble of a crown; and when the wise world cried out in their surprise, and strained their fancies for the cause of conduct which seemed so strange to them, they forgot that princes who reign to labour, grow weary like the peasant of the burden of daily toil. The Reign of Mary Tudor
I no longer thought of God in the analogy of a human body, yet I was constrained to conceive thee to be some kind of body in space, either infused into the world, or infinitely diffused beyond the world -- and this was the incorruptible, inviolable, unchangeable substance, which I thought was better than the corruptible, the violable, and the changeable. Confessions and Enchiridion, newly translated and edited by Albert C. Outler
The scars from that experience have healed but you could still see them in the rider's relatively restrained reaction to victory. Times, Sunday Times
There are sound scientific reasons why we call robust, unrestrained laughter "hearty. Love, Medicine and Miracles
Collection, storage and transmission of data about these activities are constrained by the energy requirements and size of the recording loggers and transmitters.
I feel constrained to write and ask for your forgiveness.
Push it hard and it feels and sounds strained. The Sun
the dog was unconstrained
‘Yeah, they are’ she said, but her smile was clearly strained and unfaithful to what she was feeling.
She looked strained, with dark shadows under her lovely green eyes.
I swallowed dryly before continuing in a strained voice.
The prospects for improving labor standards at the domestic level are constrained by two countervailing market forces.
Seeing how terribly the trip strained the ungainly mother, Indira was amazed at her stoic determination to continue.
He sings with the strained discomfort of someone whose voice hasn't quite broken.
PeptiVir, Inc. (Aurora, CO) is an early stage biopharmaceutical company focused on the development and commercialization of a conformationally-constrained, synthetic peptide-based vaccine platform for the prevention of viral diseases. PRWeb - Daily News Feed
In Delicious Chemistry the elements of restrained instrumentation, intelligent arrangement and superbly controlled vocals come together into a powerful compound.
No, for he woke upside down, restrained by a seatbelt connected to a seat in a certain upturned Toyota Avensis.
He thinks she found them old-fashioned: too dynamic and passionate, in contrast to the restrained neoclassicism that was becoming fashionable in the 1770s. The Path of 'Progress'
Of course some empires collapse because they overextend their borders, leaving the centre strained and hollow. Times, Sunday Times
The correlation coefficient is high, probably close to .8 out of 1.0, meaning that the economy is about 80% constrained by oil. Matthew Yglesias » Trade Deficit Now Mostly Oil
What is a police state other than one in which police have strong powers not properly restrained by the courts?
It is the duty of every true friend of humanity and order, to protest against perverted sensibilities or sophistical refinements, which find warrant or apology for depraved appetites, -- for the worst distemperature of the mind, and the most fatal catastrophes, -- in natural propension, and unrestrained feeling. Choice Specimens of American Literature, and Literary Reader Being Selections from the Chief American Writers
Coming too soon to an overcrowded, overstrained and overleveraged metropolis near you. TV review: Dispatches – Olympic Tickets for Sale; Storyville – If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front
Nevertheless, even absolute monarchs or totalitarian dictators are constrained by forces beyond their control.
View image of page frequently rejoice unrestrainedly, and thank the Lord that he hath thus favored me in the choice, which I now verily believe was directed and sanctioned by his providence and which I trust shall ever be blessed to his holy name and to usefulness in his cause. Letter from Young John Allen to Mollie HoustonOctober 10, 1856
The extraction efficiency of organic light-emitting diode(OLED) is restrained by the high fraction of energy of the guided wave in the high-index materials(ITO/organic).
Sammi jumped up from her seat as two musclemen restrained her from leaving the booth.
Enough strained and degreased broth from cooking the lamb to moisten the filling Archive 2007-01-01
The court distrained property from him.
The plot is strained and the back-stories of deprivation can feel like a counsellor's casebook, yet most of the characters have the ring of truth and Coghlan has an ear for street talk.
I experimented with reducing leftover dried clay scraps to the consistency of slip and strained the mixture to remove lumps.
That will involve quickly resolving the company's strained relationship with its bottlers over pricing and increasing its advertising spending.
David Trezeguet strained the flexor muscles in his left thigh during the match with Pescara.
These faraway lands offer each of us the chance to escape our safe, constrained and overcrowded homeland to better define ourselves on our own terms. Times, Sunday Times
idle, unconstrained gossip
Henderson was smiling gently, but since her eyes were on the flickering candles, I couldn't tell if she sensed the strained silence.
The middle button of his uniform jacket was strained over his belly.
Most of them have the ideas, acumen and determination to expand their activities but are constrained by the lack of finance capital.
Individual choice is constrained by kin group exogamy.
unrestrained laughter
But here the strained and unconvincing resolution arrives posthaste.
We are constrained to apply only reasonable force when we, our families, or our property is attacked.
Not only the children of Israel, that had revolted from the temple, but the children of Judah too, that still adhered to it -- not only the common people, the men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem, but those that should have reproved and restrained sin in others were themselves ringleaders in it, their kings and princes, their priests and prophets. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
Nika stood up as her captive yanked and strained at the glittering strand that leashed her, shoulders bunching and teeth bared.
In England, France, and generally on the Continent notions of legislative supremacy dictated that the popularly elected parts of government were not to be restrained by appointed judges.
In its place, he has built a bigger, swankier - but, by local standards, positively restrained - ultra-modernist four- to five-bedroom villa. Times, Sunday Times
Seconds later the aircraft smacked into the deck and was violently restrained as its arrestor hook caught, the deceleration dizzying. Times, Sunday Times
Reliever Joba Chamberlain is headed to the disabled list with a strained flexor tendon in his arm. Arm Injury May Cost Chamberlain a Month
Laughter is easily restrained, by a very little reflection; but as it is generally connected with the idea of gaiety, people do not enough attend to its absurdity. Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman
Gladys wanted to ask, "Aren't you angry with him?" But she restrained herself from doing so.
He stared down at her, his deep brown eyes darkening with barely restrained emotion.
Prices are not guaranteed, but imports are constrained by levies and restrictions.
The more highly constrained and ritualised the genre, the more likely we are to be able to identify norms.
The strained friendship has made for some awkward moments on the stand.
Our strengths include our commitment to truth and healing, our unconstrained support for one another, and the gift that is Tarot.
The visit aggravated Japan's already strained relations with its Asian neighbors.
It is further strained when training for the next tour, unaccompanied school assignments and temporary duty travel increase the separation of a soldier and his family.
Poor soil has constrained the level of crop production.
He has strained against every nettlesome one of them - counter-attacking and squandering valuable time that should have been used to promote his message.
This dogma is supposed to free the writerly side of one's brain for unconstrained truth-telling.
The name was taken out of the Psalms for the Fourteenth Day of the Month, and was bestowed on her in obedience to her father's conviction that, where parents were constrained to give their child so indistinctive a surname as Smith, they ought to counterbalance it with a Christian name more original and vivacious. Sydney Smith
This combination process, called unconstrained fibring, can be generalized, by allowing C1 and Combining Logics
But overall Niccol has done a fine, restrained job in a genre for which many of us have lowered our expectations.
Simple chords, restrained riffs and quiet imagery lead to just a perfect pathos running through each and every song.
Whisk the eggs very thoroughly with the strained juice. Cut the butter into small cubes.
Clearly, the existing technologies are a limitation and multimedia must temporarily be constrained by the platforms currently available to deliver it.
The unrestrained art of performance is far more fulfilling for him than stop-start filming for television.
Let the honest heart shew itself, and reason teach passion to submit to necessity; or, let the dignified pursuit of virtue and knowledge raise the mind above those emotions which rather imbitter than sweeten the cup of life, when they are not restrained within due bounds. A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
Despite the presence of a couple of slightly more restrained pieces (including the closing ‘Japan’), Humcrush is packed with incident.
The meetings between her parents were strained and uncomfortable.
What roles does affliction, the suffering constrained by the sense of God's palpable absence, play in divine providence, according to Herbert's poetry?
J.B. glowered like a spoilt child, for Kagi backed me up, and our discussion was pretty strained until he got his way on another ridiculous point - the establishment of a school in the hills for piccaninnies. THE NUMBERS
It has been asserted that the darnel is a degenerated kind of wheat; and attempts have been made to give additional significance to our Lord's instructive parable by injecting this thought; there is no scientific warrant for the strained conception, however, and earnest students will not be misled thereby. Jesus the Christ A Study of the Messiah and His Mission According to Holy Scriptures Both Ancient and Modern
Senators Cornyn and Reid should both just sit down, cool off, and allow the plain meanings of law, unstrained by the casuistry of lawyers or by the pulls of partisanship to provide guidance in these two cases. — Republican Leader Threatens to Block Seating of Franken - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com
The actor finds an unstrained vocal pitch that is as uncanny as it is hilarious. Current Movie Reviews, Independent Movies - Film Threat
Howard restrained himself from commenting on that piece of advice, having found that his smart remarks were obviously not appreciated here.
The fence is then strained fairly tight and is ready to load, the block and tackle being left in place.
She gazed at him, but was more absorbed in herself than in him, absorbed in a gradual change which was taking place within her, and which was making her different, making her irrecognisable to herself; a still confused and blind sense of immense truth, which was being borne in upon her, in mysterious ways, and which strained painfully at the innermost fibres of her heart. The Saint
He tried to erase the tapes as he wasn't happy with it but an engineer restrained him. The Sun
Republican rhetoric had consisted of unrestrained hostility to the Soviet Union and emphasized permanent war with Communism.
Accordingly, he had restrained his own consumption just as Cunningham's had begun to accelerate out of control.
The quality of Mercy was definitely strained, weakened by intermarriage and a few too many falls in the riding ring. THE LAST PLACE
Pour the strained liquor into a sugar-rimmed martini glass and garnish with lemon peel.

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