Example sentences for: straining

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

  • The United States has had to find ways to extend its reach, straining the limits of its influence.

  • On June 7, 1996, the Maine Public Radio announcer, reading the midday news report, spoke of a local philanthropist who was doughnutting something-or-other—I did not learn what because I was straining to understand that mysterious verb and, too late, realized donating had been meant.

  • 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.

  • Baffled and disoriented, we pick our way among these versions of the truth, straining for a synthesis that would permit some hope for the couple's future.


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