"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 • ...

Kolokacji: 7

Grup znaczeniowych: 4

(1) relation, relationship, tie

Kolokacji: 3

Kolokacji: 5

(3) ear, budget, sense

Kolokacji: 3

1. strain one's ears = obciążenie czyjś uszy strain one's ears

2. strain one's budget = obciążenie czyjś budżet strain one's budget

3. strain one's senses = obciążenie czyjś sensy strain one's senses

He strained his senses as the evening breeze rustled the curtains through the open window.
By now, he had been listening for more than an hour, straining all his senses.
He laid his ear against a wall, strained his senses.
He strained his senses to listen and look for any sign, but none came.
He strained his senses to hear any sound.
How much extra can anyone give when we're already straining our senses to the limit?
But as he strained his senses, he seemed to hear a sound like distant voices.
She strained her weak psychic senses to try to read him.
Deanna tried to read his body language, to strain her senses across space and pick up something from him, but she got nothing.
He strained his senses beyond, catching at any sound, any word.

(4) muscle, hamstring, neck, ligament

Kolokacji: 4

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 • ...

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