strain
verb (used with object)
to draw tight or taut, especially to the utmost tension; stretch to the full.
strainingly
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a word derived from
strain.
Example Sentences
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His mind, fixed strainingly upon this one, all-engrossing object, lost its balance, and he could no longer reason upon his own course, or see its futility, or devise a better.
From Fairy Fingers A Novel by Anna Cora Ogden Mowatt Ritchie
In the distance a moving object attracted his attention, and as he gazed at it, long and strainingly, the terrible smile once more wreathed his white lips.
From The Redemption of David Corson by Charles Frederic Goss
Very naturally the girl was strainingly eager to relieve the anxiety of her parents—to let them know she was safe again.
From The Outdoor Girls on Pine Island Or, A Cave and What It Contained by Laura Lee Hope
She turned away but the next minute her eyes were fixed strainingly upon the wreck again.
From The Outdoor Girls at Bluff Point Or a Wreck and a Rescue by Laura Lee Hope
They both listened, breaths held waiting between their lips, their heads raised strainingly from their pillows.
From Sally Bishop A Romance by E. Temple (Ernest Temple) Thurston
