"strain" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- It seemed to strain its way across the Golden Gate.
- His hands were gripped and straining across his knees.
- Bond turned and strained his eyes across the dark expanse behind them.
- The woman's eyes strained across the distance to the little figure racing over the clearing toward the forest.
- They were straining across the room and I didn't have to follow them to know he was looking at a girl.
- The legs, even in death, strained across the smooth surface of the table.
- And a ground war - not to mention the likelihood of a massive postwar reconstruction bill - would strain budgets across Europe.
- Darham strained his eyes across a rolling land that was lapped in deep twilight.
- Amy strained to move and face me, my hand still firmly across her mouth.
- Deanna tried to read his body language, to strain her senses across space and pick up something from him, but she got nothing.
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