Sentence example with the word 'overstrain'

overstrain

beat, exhaust, go too far, know no bounds, overelaborate, overindulge, overtask, poop, strain every nerve, tire out, weary

Definition n. too much strain

Last update: June 12, 2015


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The fusion into one office of the functions of " elders " and " deacons " (still distinguished in the Savoy Declaration of 1658) was partly at least a symptom of the decay of the church-idea in its original fulness, a decay itself connected with the general decline in spiritual intensity which maiked 18th-century religion, after the overstrain of the preceding age.   [Please select]

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He started, his nerves were terribly overstrained by now.   [Please select]

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He turned, and stood with his hand on the door, and with the action the girl's overstrained nerves gave way.   [Please select]

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'You will not press these overstrained opinions of yours, so far, as to throw any obstacle in my way.'   [Please select]

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He said every nerve had been overstrained in some way, and the whole system must sleep torpid a while.   [Please select]

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With them, we say, the children are always good, and they are good because the element of nervous overstrain has not arisen.   [Please select]

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There was a certain overstrain about him, which made him cushion himself about with non-resistant personalities.   [Please select]

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