"strain" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- We've rubbed along, but the riots are straining tensions within the community, writes Graeme Archer.
- He strained within the dark agony that filled him, fought through the layers of pain to find consciousness, to heal.
- But even worse, was the anticipation straining upward within her like a sprout toward the sun.
- I strained within myself to awaken my inner sight, but my mind's eye remained dark.
- The band's fifth album was the product of an arduous and stressful creative process lasting roughly two years and straining relationships within Deftones.
- He said that refugee officials put the number of displaced people at about 280,000, straining families and food supplies within Kosovo and in neighboring regions and countries.
- The dogs, mostly German shepherds, would strain to within inches of the detainees' faces, they said.
- Even so, the details of the case have embarrassed the French military and strained its ties within the NATO alliance.
- The 2007 budget will cause disappointment, because it should be strategic, but it is, in fact, straining within its narrow limits.
- The seasons are something else - winter is a wall of white jersey propelled across the stage by men straining forward within it.
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