She smiled at him, but it was a poor, strained effort, not like the glorious, dimpled grin she'd dazzled him with moments earlier.

With a strained effort, The Shadow managed to inch his gaze in that direction.

They feel like strained, self-conscious efforts to generate material, and they should have been excised from this volume.

Slowly, with strained effort, the right hand of The Shadow moved!

Loss of blood - strained effort - both had taken toll.

It leads to strained efforts to shoehorn in data (for example, a set of human samples) just to try and get papers into specific journals.

There were those men who made strained efforts to submerge their mistrust, dislike and fear of us.

The first part of "American Woman" tells of Jenny's strained efforts to help.

Casmir made a rather strained effort to regain the initiative which he felt should rightly be his.