"strain" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- They paused when they approached her, and the pipes again sent forth the same wild and melancholy strain.
- One description of him referred to him as being of the "sapient, soft and melancholy strain", but records show he had a reputation for severity.
- Few were marches; some were airs with a distinctly melancholy strain.
- In the galley, the last melancholy strains of "Lt. Kije" wafted away and no one bothered to replace the disk.
- He seems particularly suited to the music of the doleful Dowland, with an unusual sympathy for his melancholy strains.
- Others, seemingly the most prosperous, have not been ashamed to vent their complaints in the most melancholy strains.
- Alone she cuts and binds the grain, And sings a melancholy strain; O listen!
- First named these notes a melancholy strain.
- From this room, ere yet the door was opened, proceeded a low and melancholy strain of vocal music.
- For most of the last century, the melancholy strains of the tango, so universally beloved here, have provided the perfect background music for bewildering failure.
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