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Example sentences for: straining

How can you use “straining” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

A writer finds head-spinning confusion at the National Archives, where librarians are straining to keep up with the antiquatedness of old technologies and the information sprawl caused by new ones.
"Hi, general," Johnson says, straining to be polite.
Here you can see Hornby straining hard to live up to his reputation as an interpreter of the Zeitgeist . The novel is set in 1994, and the climax cleverly dovetails with Cobain's suicide.
A Che who, like any ordinary communist politician, had never killed anyone; a Che who had survived his guerrilla adventures, and was today an elderly figure, administering some grim bureaucracy for Fidel Castro or, alternatively, writing books at home in Argentina, surrounded by his anti-communist grandchildren--a Che like that would cause no stir at all today, and writers around the world would not be straining their brains to draw ever finer distinctions between the man's calamitous influence and some undefinable greatness.
The United States has had to find ways to extend its reach, straining the limits of its influence.