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 mans 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.
The string playing was sinewy, and tonally integrated, a lovely sound which would not disgrace a professional orchestra; particularly pleasing, bearing in mind that this one includes even first year students.
He became quicker of movement than the other dogs, swifter of foot, craftier, deadlier, more lithe, more lean with ironlike muscle and sinew, more enduring, more cruel, more ferocious, and more intelligent. The Outcast
Edouard Collin is a tall wisp of a French teenager, all well-tanned Parisian sinew with a sharp-angled, warmly expressive face born to be placed in front of a camera.
Trim all excess fat and sinew from roast.
But what we have is quite enough to be going on with: a bracingly intelligent documentary that treats its audience like grown-ups and has the force and sinew of real history and real politics.
By then, our personalities - soft, giving and flaccid - have already solidified, which renders any effort to stiffen our sinews impotent.
The thick-bodied, heavy-sinewed Gialaurys sat hunched on a backless bench to Prestimion ' s left. LORD PRESTIMION
Noticing that there was little meat on the sucker and heeding the cook's warning that the sinew was pretty tough, I passed.
Inside, a sinewy, mustachioed fellow is tinkering with one of the machines.
Meanwhile, shred the meat from the bones, discarding fat and sinew. Times, Sunday Times
First, he did his little purr thing, followed by his sinewy arch thing.
In Fat of the Lamb, white fat winds around viscous sinew and muscle as if in emulation of the frame's sinuous acanthus motif.
IMAGINE that you are a teacher of Roman history and the Latin language, anxious to impart your enthusiasm for the ancient world – for the elegiacs of Ovid and the odes of Horace, the sinewy economy of Latin grammar as exhibited in the oratory of Cicero, the strategic niceties of the Punic Wars, the generalship of Julius Caesar and the voluptuous excesses of the later emperors. THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH
We have also fair and large baths, of several mixtures, for the cure of diseases, and the restoring of man's body from arefaction; and others for the confirming of it in strength of sinews, vital parts, and the very juice and substance of the body. New Atlantis
His sinewy arms flailed around uselessly, his legs kicked furiously, but the ocean's grip on him only got stronger as it pulled him further down.
His face was bent downward, his shoulders bowed, his lips compressed, and the veins stood out like whipcord in his long, sinewy neck. Sole Music
A spare, sinewy ascetic, he gazes at the crucifix with an emotional intensity unseen in paintings of the early 1470s.
Short and as squattily packed down as a Buddha, the great sinews of his strength bulged in his short neck and in the backs of the calves of his legs, even rippled beneath his coat. Humoresque A Laugh on Life with a Tear Behind It
From hip to hock long and sinewy, hock to pad short and strong.
Fang “became quicker of movement than the other dogs, swifter of foot, craftier, deadlier, more lithe, more lean with ironlike muscle and sinew, more enduring, more cruel, more ferocious, and more intelligent.” Le Milieu, Le Moment, La Race: Literary Naturalism in Jack London's White Fang
Then swiftly pulled it through the sinewy cord, laughing triumphantly he held huge severed equine testicle up for Berdan to see!
The Chilean's eyes popped from his head as he struggled furiously to tear away the steel-sinewed hand that had stopped off his breath. "Terrors Unseen" by Harl Vincent, part 8
Trim any fat or sinew from the fillet of beef and season all over with salt and pepper. Times, Sunday Times
The giant, sinewed fighter turned his head to the cave entrance.
a sinewy cut of beef.
Viola was a small, sinewy, speedy hurricane, spewing surprises with every contraction.
There's a sinewy onion strand nestled between them.
Add the excess fat and sinew to the roasting dish and brown, too. Times, Sunday Times
It has access, through its member-states, to the sinews of war in abundance, from nuclear and conventional weapons to massive forces on land, at sea, and in the air.
Gage is 6-4,212 pounds, with long, sinewy legs.
This diversified, far flung structure didn't have the management sinews in place to enable it to run normally.
All that most maddens and torments; all that stirs up the lees of things; all truth with malice in it; all that cracks the sinews and cakes the brain; all the subtle demonisms of life and thought; all evil, to crazy Ahab, were visibly personified, and made practically assailable in Moby Dick. Cracktastic: Wanted’s Timur Bekmambetov Directing Moby Dick | /Film
Rope is the sinew of any sailing vessel.
Here was he, the individual, very possibly placed on -- at all events, infesting -- a particular planet for a considerable number of years; the planet was so elaborately constructed, so richly clothed with trees and valleys and uplands and running waters and multitudinary grass-blades, and the body that housed Felix Kennaston was so intricately wrought with tiny bones and veins and sinews, with sockets and valves and levers, and little hairs which grew upon the body like grass-blades about the earth, that it seemed unreasonable to suppose this much cunning mechanism had been set agoing aimlessly: and so, he often wondered if he was not perhaps expected to devote these years of human living to some intelligible purpose? The Cream of the Jest: A Comedy of Evasions
Rico stretched his arms, sinewy roped muscle rippling beneath the thin, sweaty T-shirt fabric.
Inside, a sinewy, mustachioed fellow is tinkering with one of the machines.
Trim the game meat of any fat or sinew, then cut into 1cm cubes. Times, Sunday Times
In the first place, he promoted logic from being the organon or tool of philosophy to that organic part of it which as bones and sinews supplied the articulation and dynamic of its structure.
Accordingly we find money called expressly ta neura tou polemou, "the sinews of war," in Familiar Quotations A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature
The sinews on his neck stood out like knotted string.
His fingers closed around the sinewy handle of the knife the father had shown him, and he lifted it out of the drawer.
Notably, all aural analogues share the same sinewy, coruscant guitar work.
On Sunday morning, he has a massage from a malish wallah with thin sinewy hands and tea-stained teeth who comes up to the house specially. A FEW SHORT NOTES ON TROPICAL BUTTERFLIES
An egg contains water within its beautiful smooth surface; and an unformed mass, by the incubation of the parent, becomes a regular animal, furnished with bones and sinews, and covered with feathers.
Money is the sinews of war.
Cut away half the onglet lengthwise from the thick sinew running through the meat. Times, Sunday Times
These steel posts form the sinews of the building.
We have also fair and large baths, of several mixtures, for the cure of diseases, and the restoring of man's body from arefaction: and others for the confirming of it in strength of sinewes, vital parts, and the very juice and substance of the body. New Atlantis
I turned into a tiger and roared, feeling the sinews under my skin tighten, and my adopted whiskers bristle.
The sinews and muscles of the jet black steeds bulged and rippled as they trotted the coach around so that it pointed properly down the Beget Road.
The outline of its fibre-sinews flickered in viridian, while diagnostic ikons marched across the bottom of the screen.
Joy surged through his blood, through his sinews, through his bones.
He had the body of an athlete, every sinew honed down to perfection, but he wasn't brainless.
The muted red, gray and off-white mottled surface of the former brings to mind the texture of sinewy muscles; the monochromatic black installs a simple elegance on the latter. ArtScene: Current California Exhibitions You Should See
By opening ourselves to the presence of the Spirit, we can receive the sinews of divine strength, enabling us to move in his power.
If this is so it is quite possible they are mercenary bowmen from eastern Europe, and these archers are known to have used horn and sinew shortbows.
She was tall, but, unlike Solange, she was composed less of sinews and bone, but rather of elegantly-developed womanly curves.
Slow cooked, the sinew that makes meat tough becomes jelly.
Electricity and water on tap ease the burden of domestic labour for African women, but they may also help to snap some of the remaining sinews that hold together old rural lifestyles.
He's 12 stone of sinew and muscle and righteous indignation. Times, Sunday Times
He'll bring his sinewy, rhythmic pieces to life on stage with the help of members of the Kalmunity crew.
Tall and fair, grey-eyed and sinewy, the Teuton was a hardier, more sturdy warrior than the Celt: he had not spent centuries of quiet settlement and imitative civilisation under the ægis of Hero-Myths & Legends of the British Race
Playwright Edward Bond supplied sinewy dialogue, but nothing could compete with Roeg's startling images of fierce orange suns, lizards and insects, and savage terrain.
Trim any excess fat and sinew from the onglet. Times, Sunday Times
Sinewy and sensuous, these preparatory masterworks are anatomical wonders capturing the longings of the famously impetuous painter.
And that determination will stiffen the sinew and summon up the blood. Times, Sunday Times
He hafted a series of replicated contracting-stemmed bifaces to notched wooden handles using adhesives of varying tensile strength; one was lashed only with deer sinew.
His thin, sinewy frame is a testimony to his inability to earn a decent wage.
Remove all the bones and sinew from the lamb, but keeping the shape is very important. Times, Sunday Times
A tall and sinewy freestyle climber, Mr. Albert ascended some of the world's craggiest mountain faces without the aid of ropes, pitons or anchors. Obituary: Freestyle mountain climber Kurt Albert dies of injuries from fall
– “He was fairly tall, with straight black hair, crystalline blue eyes, and golden-brown skin that rippled over muscle and sinew.” Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » The Five Page Challenge!
Comprised of a long sinewy pull followed by a spry frog kick, the pulldown is a holy moment of shrouded watery silence.
Stone tools are virtually indestructible, whereas organic materials - bone, antler, wood, leather, sinews, cordage, basketry, featherwork, etc. - decay under most normal conditions.
I remembered his unflawed skin, the clean grace of his bones and sinews.
When Arthur comes in from work in his bib and brace, his sleeves are rolled up above his elbows, and I see the inside of his arms, the sinews and knotty veins.
To achieve greater power, massive ‘composite’ laths made from sinew, horn or baleen, and wood came into use; these were shorter and much stiffer than earlier wood laths.
The sight of death and destruction, the gore, the exposed sinew and bone, the open skulls and slaughtered children does not bother me.
One woman lay on her back on the floor, a taut line of soul and sinew, then folded herself in two from the waist. Times, Sunday Times
The instructor of visual arts was in his middle forties, equipped with a sinewy body and a receding hairline.
A rabbit snare is made of fine babiche, sinew, cord, or wire, and the loop is hung over a rabbit runway just high enough to catch it round the neck. The Drama of the Forests Romance and Adventure
The North Slavey inhabited mountainous areas of the Northwest Territories and hunted mainly caribou and buffalo, using bow and arrows, spears, clubs, snares and twisted sinew.
A name was chosen, some art created, the techier minds between us built the powerful frame on which the writers would hang the muscle and sinew of writing on, and then, some thirty days later ... Why I Write
Granted, the smell isn't rosy, and the work can be tough on your hump - a lumpen mass of gristle, muscle, bone and sinew - but this ensures you don't dawdle on the job.
The sinewy first movement, which is the most concise in the whole of Bax's symphonic cycle, packs a powerful punch.
And these people knew not the wisdom of my people, in that they snared and pitted their meat and in battle used clubs and stone throwing-sticks and were unaware of the virtues of arrows swift - flying, notched on the end to fit the thong of deer-sinew, well - twisted, that sprang into straightness when released to the spring of the ask-stick bent in the middle. Chapter 21
Wanderers didn't strain every sinew and summon every ounce of effort to gain promotion just to spend a season in the Premiership playing for sympathy.
She says protection is the fiercest instinct — sinewy, jagged, unpredictable.
I am not an all-organic eater, except in the sense that I try not to eat things that are composed entirely of borosilicates, and I am too much the chemist's daughter (mighty-sinewed chemist's daughter!) not to make that joke. Mrissa: State of the Mris Report
The blanket was removed and a blood-sodden strip of linen unwound from the German boy's right forearm, which was hanging to his shoulder by a few shreds of flesh and sinew. Combed Out
In this silence, alert us to the wailing of people in peril, awaken us to possibilities of perfection, attune us to the sinews of strength that we share, so that our hands will not be lifted in destruction.
And that determination will stiffen the sinew and summon up the blood. Times, Sunday Times
Meanwhile, trim the lamb of excess fat and sinew. Times, Sunday Times
Sourav's men may have faltered at the World Cup finals but camps like these do hint at a team that is busy broadening its vision and strengthening its sinews.
The sinewy neck and its prominent adam's apple, the all-too-heavy make-up, the pronounced muscles on the legs and arms.
How did people who were armed only with weapons of stone, antler, ivory, wood and sinew successfully hunt such beasts as mammoths in the Clovis phase or bison in the subsequent Folsom and Plano periods?
Your immigrant is an asset, not merely because he represents a certain amount of brains and sinew, but because all that is good in him urges him to pay that debt to Canada. Anti-Semitism
One woman lay on her back on the floor, a taut line of soul and sinew, then folded herself in two from the waist. Times, Sunday Times
Or again he were to say, I will not have this arrow taken out until I have learnt whether the shaft which wounded me was wound round with the sinews of an ox, or of a buffalo, or of a ruru deer, or of a monkey. Questions Which Tend Not to Edification. II. The Doctrine. Translated from the Majjhima-Nikya, and constituting Sutta 63.
His sinewy body gives him a youthful appearance belying his 56 years.
Again, there was no grandstanding, no implication that the nation needed to have its resolve stiffened or its sinews strengthened.
Slow cooked, the sinew that makes meat tough becomes jelly.
Of course, finding the sinews to knit together your comedy muscles can be tricky.
The Nunamiut kayaks are covered with caribou skins, which are sewn with sinew and babiche and sealed with tallow.
He was fairly tall, with straight black hair, crystalline blue eyes, and golden-brown skin that rippled over muscle and sinew. Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » The Five Page Challenge!
And started laying into the sinewy buffalo forequarter. 2009 December — Fusion Despatches
Trim the beef fillet of any sinew. Times, Sunday Times
The treatment of the musculature is sensitive, with veins, sinews, and tendons clearly depicted.
Money is the sinews of love, as of war.Sentence dictionary
Pick over the livers, discarding sinew and fat. Times, Sunday Times
Her strong, sinewy delivery has always set her apart. The Sun
Covetousness cracks the sinews of faith, numbs the apprehension of anything above sense; and only affected with the certainty of things present, makes a peradventure of things to come; lives but unto one world, nor hopes but fears another: makes their own death sweet unto others, bitter unto themselves, brings formal sadness, scenical mourning, and no wet eyes at the grave. Letter to a Friend
At All Hallows secondary school in inner city Salford they have strained sinews to lay on cricket for pupils who until 2008 had no opportunities to play the game. Cricket's grassroots need to be inclusive not exclusive
He was a small, sinewy man, 67 years old.
It is the theme that lends strength to the sheer ingenuity of SF, sinews to mere fancy.
Of the mylodon Doctor Moreno found not only comparatively fresh bones, with bits of sinew, but dried dungalmost as large as that of an elephantand some big pieces of skin. VIII. Primeval Man; and the Horse, the Lion, and the Elephant
When Arthur comes in from work in his bib and brace, his sleeves are rolled up above his elbows, and I see the inside of his arms, the sinews and knotty veins.
His body is sinewy and slightly weary. Times, Sunday Times
Priest, not by word, yet by brain and sinew, preaches forth the mystery of Force; nay preaches forth (exoterically enough) one little textlet from the Gospel of Freedom, the Gospel of Man's Force, commanding, and one day to be all-commanding. Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History
We are to understand by the truly honourable that which, setting aside all consideration of utility, may be rightly praised in itself, exclusive of any prospect of reward or compensation.] [Footnote 15: This passage is very obscurely expressed, but the general meaning is clear: "Until endurance grow sinewed with action, and the full-grown will, circled through all experiences grow or become law, be identified with law, and commeasure perfect freedom". The Early Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson
The style of its wines—sometimes described as sinewy and linear, with aromas of raspberry or earthy notes—taste like no other and, in terms of a comparison scale, they are a long way from Australia's Barossa Shiraz. An Australian in Burgundy
He tasks me; he heaps me; I see in him outrageous strength, with an inscrutable malice sinewing it. The flavor of words and phrases ...
Money is the sinews of war.
Cut away half the onglet lengthways from the thick sinew running through the meat. Times, Sunday Times
Tendons were severed, sinews slit and flesh shredded.
The only wood which they can procure, not possessing sufficient elasticity combined with strength, they ingeniously remedy the defect by securing to the back of the bow, and to the knobs at each end, a quantity of small lines, each composed of a plat or "sinnet" of three sinews. 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
I like 'Mighty-sinewed chemist's daughter' myself, though I suspect that's not a kenning because it's, y'know. Mrissa: Also
They succeeded in destroying the bones and sinews of the post-war settlement: heavy industry and the industrial public sector.
And that determination will stiffen the sinew and summon up the blood. Times, Sunday Times
Money is the sinews of love, as of war.
All that maddens and torments; all that stirs up the lees of things; all truth with malice in it; all that cracks the sinews and cakes the brain; all the subtle demonisms of life and thought; all evil, to crazy me, are visibly personified, and made practically assailable in Barack Obama. Ferraro Resigns From The Clinton Campaign
And when the season of frost comes on, stitch together skins of firstling kids with ox-sinew, to put over your back and to keep off the rain. Hesiod, Homeric Hymns, and Homerica
She is a small, red-haired woman with an air of sinewy defiance. Times, Sunday Times
It was described as ' sinewy ' and ' packing a punch ' by the medical writer Galen.
I could hear the scraping of bone against bone, the snapping of tendons and sinews as they parted and tore, making way for what would come.
I like 'Mighty-sinewed chemist's daughter' myself, though I suspect that's not a kenning because it's, y'know. Mrissa: Also
I admire her sinewy prose style.
If a truck or a tank should appear, I am mushed with all sinews and bones irretrievably crushed.
The clothing is made from white caribou hides and sewn with sinew, using split bird quills on the seams.
Charlton is looking, in language, for something beyond what he calls "the sinewy slippage of language"'.
Or, rather, he had invented for himself a language which used the sinews of the languages to which he had been exposed-and once I thought that his was, not the Adamic language that a happy mankind had spoken, all united by a single tongue from the origin of the world to the Tower of Babel, or one of the languages that arose after the dire event of their division, but precisely the Babelish language of the first day after the divine chastisement, the language of primeval confusion. The Name of the Rose
Then I realized that any of the the various small stories of treachery and betrayal I had encountered could form the thews and sinews of a mystery novel.
Were you a native of Greece, where to exhibit in the public games [e] is an honourable employment; and if the gods had bestowed upon you the force and sinew of the athletic Nicostratus [f]; do you imagine that I could look tamely on, and see that amazing vigour waste itself away in nothing better than the frivolous art of darting the javelin, or throwing the coit? A Dialogue Concerning Oratory, Or The Causes Of Corrupt Eloquence The Works Of Cornelius Tacitus, Volume 8 (of 8); With An Essay On His Life And Genius, Notes, Supplements
She learned how to strip the sinews from the tendons and make the string for the bow, how to select the best willows for the shaft of the arrows, how to bind the goose quills to the shaft with gut and gum.
The hood of her squirrelskin parka was about her hair and well drawn up around her throat; but her hands were unmittened and nimbly at work with needle and sinew, completing the last fantastic design on a belt of leather faced with bright, scarlet cloth. Keesh, The Son of Keesh
ShecallsMadonna's body “fatless” and “sinewy”, her face “pointy” and “feline”. Op-Ed: The Real Motivation Behind the Madonna-Bashing
At All Hallows secondary school in inner city Salford they have strained sinews to lay on cricket for pupils who until 2008 had no opportunities to play the game. Cricket's grassroots need to be inclusive not exclusive
This is a magnificent top, the hub of four sinewy ridges that radiate from the summit to form the apex of five huge corries.
A place where the contours of the land itself forms a kind of sinewy poetry.
He was giraffe thin and much too tall but full of sinews; snapped proof of the nonbeing of Minnows with his Polaroid. Minnows
O you butlers, creators of new forms, make me of no drinker a drinker, a perennity and everlastingness of sprinkling and bedewing me through these my parched and sinewy bowels. Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
The charm of German is that it has both muscular nouns and sinewy sentence structure. Times, Sunday Times
I have to look away as he launches his sinewy body onto her hard surface and disappears into the sunrise. Times, Sunday Times
He was taller than most Welshmen, his the lean wiry strength of stamina rather than muscle and sinew. HERE BE DRAGONS
Now that it's been pepped up with a turbo-charged engine, it's a really sinewy drive... Times, Sunday Times
The band reduces electric boogie and original punk-funk to their sinewy essences, with enough sleaze, sass and drunken merriment to power a pimpmobile.
I see this guy up the road, let's say a latish 40'ish dish full of sinews, trying to hitch a ride. Cluck Cluck
Students and fledgling writers are constantly warned away from adjectives and told to give their writing strength and sinew with judiciously chosen nouns and verbs.
It was served like the others with rice, red and green peppers and onions, but the lamb was sinewy.
It also received several blows of the sword on the face, but, wearing as it did a cataphract made of sinew, it was not hurt, nor were the blows effective. De Re Militari: The Society for Medieval Military History » The Campaigns of Emperor Herakleios (620-6), according to the Chronicle of Theophanes Confessor
He plunges into each situation without preamble, then utilizes sinewy, staccato prose to snare our attention.
The runner was tall and sinewy.
The delicate traceries of individual drawings mingle and tangle with each other, creating labyrinths of wings, teeth and sinewy limbs.
They were large-knuckled, sinewy and malformed by labour, rimed with callouses, the nails blunt and broken, and with here and there cuts and bruises, healed and healing, such as are common to the hands of hard-working men. SAMUEL
The rapid delineation of muscles and sinews, the visible pentimenti and the variable thickness of the chalk lines indicate a purposeful exploration of the physical possibilities of the medium in accurately depicting the human body.
The runner was tall and sinewy.
As we have come to expect and learned to treasure, he is not content merely with his sinewy, epigrammatic, pellucid prose, and does not rest only upon his gift of narrative, his unparalleled expository powers, and his eye for the telling detail.
They sketched a woman whose chest had been carefully cut open to reveal muscle and sinew.
These range from the not-so-simple cartwheels and handstands, to the sinew-stretching Pyramid Formations and Basket Tosses.
The sinews on his neck stood out like knotted string.
Money is the sinews of love[sentence dictionary], as of war.
Inside, a sinewy, mustachioed fellow is tinkering with one of the machines.
I am not an all-organic eater, except in the sense that I try not to eat things that are composed entirely of borosilicates, and I am too much the chemist's daughter (mighty-sinewed chemist's daughter!) not to make that joke. Mrissa: State of the Mris Report
Tendons and sinews are still used for sewing and putting together the cone shaped Laitok tents; the antlers for fashioning tools, fishing hooks and ornaments.
You can tell the regulars: sinewy local men in white shirts with red bandannas at their throats, some wearing red sashes.
“We have also fair and large baths, of several mixtures, for the cure of diseases, and the restoring of man’s body from arefaction; and others for the confirming of it in strength of sinews, vital parts, and the very juice and substance of the body. The New Atlantis
Eesa and Girhi, who are all infantry: a village seldom contains more than six or eight, and the lowest value would be ten cows or twenty Tobes. 27 Careful of his beast when at rest, the Somali Bedouin in the saddle is rough and cruel: whatever beauty the animal may possess in youth, completely disappears before the fifth year, and few are without spavin, or sprained back-sinews. First footsteps in East Africa
But Manda noticed she was muscular, eyeing the corded veins and sinewy muscles along her forearms.
As the L.A.-based painter makes staggeringly evident, meat is raw organic matter, streaked with stringy sinew and mottled with roseate fat.
Digital processing morphs the clarinet's mournful tones into deep sinewave swoops, zooms in on the crackle of spit on the reed or squeezes out didgeridoo-like overtones.
Books that length struggle to find a publisher these days, so this kind of sinewy masterpiece is a dying art-form. :Acquired Taste
One woman lay on her back on the floor, a taut line of soul and sinew, then folded herself in two from the waist. Times, Sunday Times
She stands strong and dignified, with her sinewy and angularly carved face turning slightly away as though just having taken another unavoidable look at a painful past.
His long frame was hard and lean, not given to bulging muscles but a sinewed toughness. Western Man
Money is the sinews of love, as of war.
As the sinewy red mass ascended through clear fluid, a bizarre blob formed at the tip, broke loose, and floated upward.
Yet as the last colored leaves, varnished with the first rains of winter, fall earthward, the deciduous trees bare their sinewy musculature for all the world to look upon.
A kinship system based on matrilineal clans was the source of Cherokee identity and the sinew of society.
At 64, he appears to be mostly sinew and muscle. Times, Sunday Times
Surely he's made of rubber and elastic, rather than skin and bone, muscles and sinews.
Discard any sinew and bones, and shred any large pieces of meat with a fork. Times, Sunday Times

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