- present tense form of strain (3rd person singular).
strains
Example Sentences
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But it strains credulity to assume that earnings will grow so much more quickly that, even after being discounted at higher interest rates, they still come out ahead.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 17, 2026
"No matter what's going on financially, whatever stresses and strains we've got, it's always an accessible price point for us to be able to come and be sorted for the week."
From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026
Snell has a history of left groin and adductor strains.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026
Both have done so willingly, but not obliviously to the financial and other strains that couples have put on them and other guests.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026
The constant evolution or recycling of new strains of flu, with differing antigens, explains why your having gotten flu two years ago didn’t protect you against the different strain that arrived this year.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
