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Example sentences for: strained

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Like Chekhov, Keats was thrust by early family experiences into a vicious individualism that forever strained his metaphysics.
At issue: The administration is debating whether it is worse to give loans to an operation generally thought to be shady, or risk jeopardize already strained relations with the Kremlin.
Already strained to the breaking point, this cut will devastate the civil equal justice delivery system in our state.
Mardi gras ( Renealmia alpinia ) is used to bathe dogs who have strained a limb.
But the exemption has been strained to breaking point in Flytrap, as black intellectuals struggle to explain why the African-American electorate supports Bill Clinton so much more vigorously than the white one does.