"strain" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- After two and a half weeks he began to break down under the strain.
- The thing was very heavy, and he thought his back would break under the strain.
- Under the strain his health gave way and he died in December 1643.
- The idea here is not to win but to test his body and see whether it will hold up under the strain of competition.
- The sites appeared to be holding up under the strain.
- I did that for two months, until my eyes finally gave out under the strain.
- My back screamed under the strain of standing off balance.
- What if he broke down under the strain and confessed?
- Then again, perhaps he had gone insane and broken under the strain.
- My arms were beginning to ache under the strain of holding him.
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