例文・使い方で印象づける「straining」の覚え方
スポンサーリンク...Sometimes, in thetraces, when jerked by a sudden stoppage of the sled, or by straining to startit, he would cry out with pain... 
Jack London 「The Call of the Wild」
... His ears were straining to catch the words now passing between Steed and Bishop...
Rafael Sabatini 「Captain Blood」
... That long, inactive waiting was straining the nerves of both Lord Willoughby and van der Kuylen...
Rafael Sabatini 「Captain Blood」
...Soon the soft sounds that to a trained ear invariably betray the presence of a number of horses reached Ffoulkes’ straining senses...
Baroness Orczy 「El Dorado」
... There was a hush—every ear straining to listen; but the horses were not still—they continued to champ their bits, to paw the ground, and to toss their heads, impatient to get on...
Baroness Orczy 「El Dorado」
...If that should prove to be the case, it would mean that there was something the matter more serious than the mere straining of the ship; possibly a butt or a hood-end had been started...
Harry Collingwood 「A Middy of the Slave Squadron」
...We stood watching it with straining eyes, the minutes turned into hours, the ship all the time rushing through the water at a furious rate...
W.H.G. Kingston 「The Two Supercargoes」
...Pushing from our very toes, straining every muscle, urging the dogs withvoice and whip, we guided the sledges...
Matthew A. Henson 「A Negro Explorer at the North Pole」
...Yet a vast vision sank on her weary spirit—the vision of a dark cloud that dropped and dropped upon her, and lay as lead along her straining shoulders...
W. E. B. Du Bois 「The Quest of the Silver Fleece」
...Moreover it can raiseitself above black labor only by a legalized caste system which willcut off competition and this is what the South is straining everynerve to create...
Booker T. Washington 「The Negro in the South」
...Twisting herself like a weasel her clawscame uppermost, and to our straining gaze there wasa sight presented very much as if a feather-bed hadbeen ripped open...
W. E. Webb 「Buffalo Land」
...Whata straining of muscles! The low ridge barely liftingthe animals against the horizon, their legs, from rapidityof motion, were invisible, and the bodies, for ashort space, seemed floating in air...
W. E. Webb 「Buffalo Land」
...Alittle straining may attend the closing of the operation...
Dinks, Mayhew, and Hutchinson 「The Dog」
...In dragging upon the fetus apply strongtraction only while the mother is straining, and drag downward toward the hocksas well as backward...
U.S. Department of Agriculture 「Special Report on Diseases of Cattle」
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