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Example sentences for: strained

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This is one I want to fix for you ." He then told a strained joke about managed care: An HMO employee who arrives at the pearly gates and is told by St. Peter, "You can come in, but you can only stay three days."
Like Chekhov, Keats was thrust by early family experiences into a vicious individualism that forever strained his metaphysics.
Already strained to the breaking point, this cut will devastate the civil equal justice delivery system in our state.
The history of such cooperation in 1997 and 1998 had been strained.
The less Frieidman has to say of his own, the more he relies on slogans and strained neologisms.