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Example sentences for: strained

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Under this scenario, unified budget deficits emerge again in 2019-just as the Social Security and Medicare programs are being strained by the retiring baby boom generation.
Unfortunately the atmosphere now feels strained.
Reno admitted that the video controversy has strained relations with the White House.
The less Frieidman has to say of his own, the more he relies on slogans and strained neologisms.
Mardi gras ( Renealmia alpinia ) is used to bathe dogs who have strained a limb.