Meaning of strainingly | Babel Free

Definitions

So as to strain; with a straining action.

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Examples

“He sat up after a few moments, and threw back his head, listening strainingly for outside sounds.”

“[…] as soul-deadeningly, eye-strainingly, sleep-inducingly boring as going through fourteen file boxes of sloppily photostatted bank records.”

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