We found 5 examples of how to use straining in an English sentence.
Sentences 1 to 5 of 5.
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| 1. | The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the deadly light into the peace and safety of a new dark age. | |
| 2. | I'm not straining your tea. | |
| 3. | The creaking of the masts; the straining and groaning of bulkheads, as the ship labored in the weltering sea, were frightful. | |
| 4. | All the dogs were straining at their leashes. | |
| 5. | Yanni was straining to get a glimpse of Skura. |