It seemed to strain its way across the Golden Gate.

His hands were gripped and straining across his knees.

Bond turned and strained his eyes across the dark expanse behind them.

The woman's eyes strained across the distance to the little figure racing over the clearing toward the forest.

They were straining across the room and I didn't have to follow them to know he was looking at a girl.

The legs, even in death, strained across the smooth surface of the table.

And a ground war - not to mention the likelihood of a massive postwar reconstruction bill - would strain budgets across Europe.

Darham strained his eyes across a rolling land that was lapped in deep twilight.

Amy strained to move and face me, my hand still firmly across her mouth.

Deanna tried to read his body language, to strain her senses across space and pick up something from him, but she got nothing.