Julia strained toward him, but her feet felt like lead weights, and she couldn't move them.

He strained toward it, and something clicked in his mind.

G- 8 asked, straining his eyes toward the enemy lines.

The others would stop, frozen in place, to strain their hearing toward the sound.

She strained forward toward the front seat and the windshield.

"Let me tell you about my star brother," he said, so softly that the others strained toward him slightly to hear.

She could feel the darkness inside him straining toward the light.

For reasons she'd never know, the boy strained toward her.

At the flash of lightning he strained his eyes toward them.

They seemed to strain toward her while the bolt endured.