1.   As he approaches the paddock, the goats poke their heads between the rails of the fence, straining to be on their way.

2.   At times, both strained to be credible.

3.   Carolina Herrera, who has sometimes strayed by straining to be hip, returned to her elegant roots while adding a new youthful spirit.

4.   It will soon be followed by other punctuation marks by people and companies following the crowd that is straining to be distinctive.

5.   Nor is he yet straining to be self-consciously presidential.

6.   Outside, in a world straining to be real again, the people of Calcutta came to tenuous terms with their obsession.

7.   Since it became a weekly, Us, now technically known as Us Weekly, has been straining to be a sort of People magazine but with better boundaries.

8.   The movie strains to be a surrealist, knockabout satire about decency, which is a daring subject.

9.   Their support would be strained were Fox to start straying from his agnosticism on questions of public morality.