straining

“Drew was being annoying about something,” Jonathan says matter-of-factly, straining his brain for the details of their last tiff.

She squinted, blinked sporadically, and tilted her head, as if straining to wrestle answers from her brain.

Conservatives have attacked the lax security under Obama, even straining to tie the threat to ISIS.

This close alliance is now straining after a rare outburst from the UAE.

Either way, the pressure is on—which has a way of squeezing, straining, and stretching a series into strange, unflattering shapes.

Motionless she stood, straining eye and ear; she could hear nothing, but the gestures told much.

To add point to this success, he knew that the victor of Montebello was straining every nerve to gain this very prize.

I might as well have laid down and gone to sleep on that pinnacle for all the good my waiting and eye-straining did me.

A trace of bile may be present as a result of excessive straining while the tube is in the stomach.

Vegetable caseine is best obtained by treating peas or beans with hot water, and straining the fluid.