Use of the word straining in a sentence example

straining

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She stopped, straining to hear the conversation. [Please select]

By straining to satisfy St. [Please select]

What will Sieur Gilles do then with his straining wife. [Please select]

Straining all her faculties Princess Mary looked at him. [Please select]

By deaf Pat in the doorway straining ear Bloom passed. [Please select]

Ned, straining his eyes toward the Alamo, could see nothing there. [Please select]

--it is more apt to be caused by ill health consequent upon a straining chase for dollars. [Please select]

Straining back from him as he still held her hands, her whole face and form shook with the energy of her confession. [Please select]

By twelve o'clock she found herself standing at the window, straining her eyes down Lilac Valley.' [Please select]

The America he knew was made up of these small human units, some pitiably or absurdly small, but all anxiously straining upward. [Please select]

But now I felt the pulse-beats of exhausted straining men, I saw that undertaker's sign staring fixedly from across the way. [Please select]

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