strainingly
- a word derived from strain.
Example Sentences
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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 Hope, Laura Lee
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 Ritchie, Anna Cora Ogden Mowatt
And then the bird rose, slowly, strainingly, with her vast pinions winnowing the air with deep "how-hows!"
From The Way of the Wild by Rountree, Harry
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 Hope, Laura Lee
I sat fascinated, my eyes fixed strainingly on the face of the lawyer, while he continued to speak, calmly, nonchalantly, as though that of which he spoke were of every-day occurrence.
From Lucile Triumphant by Duffield, Elizabeth M.
