Every enhanced sense she possessed was straining to detect them.
No sense straining any more against all that mass, he thought.
Every sense strained to hear the low-voiced conversation in the adjacent chapel.
We listened, all our senses strained to the utmost.
The first inkling that he wasn't alone had brought him to an abrupt halt, all his senses strained.
No response He waited in the darkness, pretending to be asleep, but every sense in his body was straining to touch another human mind.
Circling again, its head pivoting and every sense straining.
He could have spoken over the noise, but no sense straining himself.
His senses strained for some sign of the port soldiers, but he could hear nothing.
But sense had little influence over his temper, already strained by enforced idleness.
