Cause (a plastic object) to assume a crooked or angular form.
Twist and press out of shape.
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Examples for "strain"
Examples for "strain"
1Health services always come under extra strain at this time of year.
2Russia recorded several cases of this strain of the virus last year.
3Argentina's health ministry has confirmed one case of the new flu strain.
4Differential exposure to financial strain may explain some differences in population health.
5Aid agencies worry that the huge influx will strain present government resources.
1This Haslerig family demonstrates that you can wring success out of anything.
2The Colonel's occasional efforts to wring information out of her yielded nothing.
3You could almost wring water out of the air in our tent.
4It outmaneuvers rivals and strikes creative financing deals to wring out value.
5Rovio certainly knows how to wring the most out of a franchise.
1Paul McGinley must wish he was a magician, able to distort reality.
2Polls using lists of emotive circumstances tend to distort results, it said.
3The University of Ohio discovered that distraction distort how we view reality.
4Everyone knows anger can distort judgment, temporarily blinding us to negative consequences.
5Sometimes, such an approach can distort the quality of the actual music.
1The podium, the lights, the focus and expectation contort the audience's perceptions.
2He would contort your muscles and dislocate your bones like any osteopath.
3I contort my wife's old nursing pillow to support my reclined back.
4I saw a grim smile contort Mr. Rochester's lips, and he muttered-
5How they contort rapid as lightning, with spasms and spouts of blood!
Assume a different shape or form.
To deform because of shearing forces.
1As these bullets strike different targets, they're gonna deform in different ways.
2Tight or high-heeled shoes deform the feet and make the gait awkward.
3Certainly, such temples as these shall erelong cease to deform the landscape.
4It took twenty-six years for that blessing to deform into a curse.
5How tendons deform in different hierarchical levels under shear and compression is unknown.
6The hats which children wear, usually compress and deform the pavilion.
7If I start slicing now, I could deform the cellular architecture.
8After two seasons, this rude dwelling does not deform the scene.
9Cam lobes slightly deform where the metal touches the rock during a fall.
10Unclasp these trunks and find something that shall not deform me.'
11And a curvature, thus given, may, and often does, deform children for life.
12Never were publicly display'd more deform'd, mediocre, snivelling, unreliable, false-hearted men.
13Israel offers a florid illustration of how disastrously collective memory can deform a society.
14And to deform and kill the things whereon we feed.
15One obstacle is developing a thinner elastomer that would require lower voltages to deform.
16But specs are it can't deform at twelve thousand psi.
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