"strain" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Then they shoulder their burdens of iron and rice and begin to strain up into the mountains.
- Clarissa's face blushed to see her bosom straining up the way it did.
- From a hundred yards away, as the van strained up the rutted dirt road, we could all see her clearly.
- It was just low enough so Stubbs could strain up on tiptoe and touch the wood between the beams.
- He could see the two pilots straining up at each other with goggled gaze.
- The Sun's light flooded the garden; flowers - white and yellow - strained up toward the sky.
- I cannot sleep for those faces gazing, straining up.
- He concentrated on the statue, the impressive figure straining up and away from the flaming orb.
- He strained up against the straps and chains.
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