"strain" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

strain verbo

strain + sustantivo
Kolokacji: 15
strain relations • strain one's eyes • strain one's ears • strain one's relationship • strain a muscle • ...
strain + preposición
Kolokacji: 25
strain against • strain at • strain for • strain with • strain in • ...
strain + adjetivo/adverbio
Kolokacji: 17
severely strained • strain forward • further strain • strain upward • badly strained • ...
3. strain hard = obciążenie mocno strain hard
  • The disagreement seriously strained the playwright's more than 20-year relationship with the company.
  • A couple's marriage is seriously strained when they strike it rich in journalism.
  • However, this emphasis seriously strained China's resources and capital and led the leadership in the late 1970s to shift to development of light industry.
  • Destruction caused by the Second Indochina War from 1954 to 1975 seriously strained the economy.
  • The relations with Sweden were seriously strained.
  • Further, there are more than three million Afghan refugees that are seriously straining the Pakistani economy.
  • Her frivolity precipitates the first of many domestic clashes that seriously strain the Redlichs' marriage.
  • A couple's marriage is seriously strained.
  • During those years he repeatedly asked his wife and mother to send him money, and indulged in a "Bohemian life" that seriously strained his marriage.
  • Destruction caused by the 1954-75 Second Indochina War seriously strained Vietnam's economy.
(3) slightly, somewhat
Kolokacji: 2

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