overstrain

How To Use overstrain In A Sentence

• And on the fifteenth day, when that we had gotten up and washt and eat and drank, the Maid did look unto my bandages; and did consider that I be healed very good, if but that I not to overstrain my body. The Night Land
• I thought I had simply overstrained myself during an exercise and that it would go away after a few days.
• I'll have keep my records brief so I don't overstrain my poor hand.
• Those scruples and that refinement against which he warned her, she herself thought might be overstrained, and to gratify unnecessary punctilio, the short period of existence be rendered causelessly unhappy. Cecilia
• Although Mumbai has a well developed public transport system that includes suburban rail and buses, the network is "overstrained" and so the city also sees a lot of car traffic, which affects air quality. How Green Are India's Cities?
• Coming too soon to an overcrowded, overstrained and overleveraged metropolis near you. TV review: Dispatches – Olympic Tickets for Sale; Storyville – If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front
• One of his conclusions is that the so-called technical exercises, gymnastics, manual training, sloyd, and the like, are not, as they are erroneously called, a relaxation from mental overstrain by change in work, but simply a new form of brain fatigue. The Education of the Child
• The young man clung rather faintly to the supporting planks, as if he had overstrained himself; and two or three hands, who had already shoved off a "bateau," pushed out and picked him up with his burden. Earth's Enigmas A Volume of Stories
• Two principal factors are involved: intellectual overstrain and emotional stress.
• If they overstrain themselves, they make new enemies.