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Example sentences for: strained

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Reno admitted that the video controversy has strained relations with the White House.
Brother Purvis strained the buttons on his vest as his face purpled and he growled (as Samson vainly resisting Delilah), “She tempts me, Lord!
Is the silence a form of shunning Isikoff, a former long-time Post reporter who left the paper under strained circumstances?
Moreover, the fighting in Afghanistan made Pakistan home to an enormous-and generally unwelcome-population of Afghan refugees; and since the badly strained Pakistani education system could not accommodate the refugees, the government increasingly let privately funded religious schools serve as a cost-free alternative.
The history of such cooperation in 1997 and 1998 had been strained.