"effort" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- She smiled at him, but it was a poor, strained effort, not like the glorious, dimpled grin she'd dazzled him with moments earlier.
- With a strained effort, The Shadow managed to inch his gaze in that direction.
- They feel like strained, self-conscious efforts to generate material, and they should have been excised from this volume.
- Slowly, with strained effort, the right hand of The Shadow moved!
- Loss of blood - strained effort - both had taken toll.
- It leads to strained efforts to shoehorn in data (for example, a set of human samples) just to try and get papers into specific journals.
- There were those men who made strained efforts to submerge their mistrust, dislike and fear of us.
- The first part of "American Woman" tells of Jenny's strained efforts to help.
- Casmir made a rather strained effort to regain the initiative which he felt should rightly be his.
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