sinew

How To Use sinew In A Sentence

• There were gobs of fat and sinewy bits throughout the whole rib cut - it was soooo wrong.
• This time she must seem the forlorn victim, with no resources of sinew or cunning to save her - only the kindness of strangers.
• They have begun building the sinews of an independent nation.
• The women are very expert at platting, which is usually done with three threads of sinew; if greater strength is required, several of these are twisted slackly together, as in the bowstrings. Three Voyages for the Discovery of a Northwest Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and Narrative of an Attempt to Reach the North Pole, Volume 2
• A track for tough cars and tough drivers, it tests every component and every sinew to the limit and few pass with flying colours.
• My eyes followed his sinewy, shirtless body and the huge lion tattooed across his chest and back. Times, Sunday Times
• Again, the unabridged dictionary gives "sinewy" as its first definition of "nervous. The Human Brain
• They sketched a woman whose chest had been carefully cut open to reveal muscle and sinew.
• “We have also fair and large baths, of several mixtures, for the cure of diseases, and the restoring of man’s body from arefaction: 1 and others for the confirming of it in strength of sinewes, vital parts, and the very juice and substance of the body. Paras 60-91
• A lean, lithe, grizzly looking fellow, supple, agile with a leathery skin and sinewy.