"strain" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Domestic life has been strained ever since the events delicately referred to in the household as "the confusion."
- Relations between Ethiopia and Eritrea have been strained since the border conflict that ended in 2000.
- Relations between Britain and Iran have been strained since the Islamic revolution in 1979.
- The relationship between foreign news organizations and the Chinese Government has often been strained, particularly since the military crackdown on dissent in June.
- This relationship has been strained since the bin Laden killing.
- Relations between the two countries have been strained since June, when protests began against military control of the nominally civilian Government.
- Those relations had been severely strained since the Vietnamese invasion of Cambodia in late 1978.
- They never had shared a warm relationship with their only child, but it had been especially strained since the scandal.
- Things had been strained between us since the previous night.
- Romania's relations with neighbour Moldova have been strained since 1994.
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