strain injury

in a sentence

But she knew too the spiritual value of bodily rigidity, of muscle strain: a little pain cleans out the mind, she'd say.†  (source) Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale, 1985

As Eragon twisted, he overextended and strained his back.†  (source) Christopher Paolini, Eldest, 2005

My first week of work went by with constant muscle strain.†  (source) Peter Jenkins, A Walk Across America, 1979

She strained back, trying to draw away from him, but he held her.†  (source) Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged, 1957

One day Samuel strained his back lifting a bale of hay, and it hurt his feelings more than his back, for he could not imagine a life in which Sam Hamilton was not privileged to lift a bale of hay.†  (source) John Steinbeck, East of Eden, 1952

In that case, you're lucky to get off with a strained ankle.†  (source) Diana Gabaldon, Outlander, 1991

D'Artagnan related how he had found Porthos in bed with a strained knee, and Aramis at a table between two theologians.†  (source) Alexandre Dumas, The Three Musketeers, 1850

They pawed at Maxim, their long, silken ears strained back with affection, their noses questing his hands, and then they left him and came to me, sniffing at my heels, rather uncertain, rather suspicious.†  (source) Daphne du Maurier, Rebecca, 1938

Then she set the first pillow up on edge and set the second pillow on edge against it and plumped them both and smoothed them and stood away and looked at them with her head on one side, and for a moment she saw him sitting up in bed with a tray on his knees as he had sat when he strained his back, and he looked at her, almost but not quite smiling, and she could hear his voice, grouchy, pretending to be for the fun of it.†  (source) James Agee, A Death in the Family, 1957

I couldn't think of a better prescription for a strained ankle than climbing six flights of stairs.†  (source) Diana Gabaldon, Outlander, 1991

He strained back desperately against the door, drowning in her embrace.†  (source) Thomas Wolfe, Look Homeward, Angel, 1929

But Patroklos followed after, crying fiercely to the Danaans, and full of evil will against the Trojans, while they with cries and flight filled all the ways, for they were scattered, and on high the storm of dust was scattered below the clouds, and the whole-hooved horses strained back towards the city, away from the ships and the huts.†  (source) Homer, The Iliad, -850 B.C.