"long" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- It had been a long strain for him, postponing bedtime for a full ten minutes.
- He was still feeling reaction after the long strain.
- But it seemed as though, at last, the long strain was beginning to tell.
- Without her it was inevitable that the reaction from the long strain to which he had subjected himself should affect him disastrously.
- With the long strain gone, I am in a sort of physical collapse today, but it will be gone tomorrow.
- He turned and went back again at last, when she was about ready to keel over from the long strain of holding herself motionless.
- Conan's corded muscles were quivering as if from a long strain.
- That the many horrors and the so long strain on nerves has at the last turn my brain.
- Wen Chang rubbed his own neck, as if the long strain were beginning to tell on him.
- The sudden reaction after that long nervous strain left us both mute for a time.
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