straining

How To Use straining In A Sentence

• Spring is the season for groin pulls - that is, straining the adductor muscles that run along the inside of your thighs.
• Sure enough, this Heller language has served to protect a remarkable variety of federal gun restrictions challenged since Heller, including bans on gun possession by felons, domestic violence misdemeanants, and persons under restraining orders, bans on sawed-off shotguns and machine guns, laws restricting guns in school zones, post offices, and other public property, and others. Dennis A. Henigan: The Gun Issue Is Back in the Supreme Court: What Does It Mean?
• I prefer a colander, which is also good for straining spagetti though one should remove it from your head first. Propeller Most Popular Stories
• If some extractive natural subsector gets scarce we will just substitute other sectors for it and growth of the whole economy will continue, not into any restraining biospheric envelope, but into sidereal space presumably full of resource-bearing asteriods and friendly highly-evolved aliens eager to teach us how to grow forever into their territory. From a Failed Growth Economy to a Steady-State Economy
• The straining bearers like a string quartet, taking the burden up in unison, at a nod from their leader?
• They were also usually, if not always, a restraining influence on the more abrasive, if not irrepressible side of Mercer.
• I sat on the bed shivering, straining to hear their conversation, but they were too far down the hall and speaking too softly anyway.
• Those two pilots physically wrestled the plane down with all four legs straining at the brakes. Times, Sunday Times
• She wrapped herself around him like a clam in formation, her body one big muscle, straining.
• Stevie shut his eyes tight, restraining himself, trying to hold his anticipation in check.