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[ UK /sˈɪnjuːi/ ]
[ US /ˈsɪnjui/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. consisting of tendons or resembling a tendon
  2. (of meat) full of sinews; especially impossible to chew
  3. (of a person) possessing physical strength and weight; rugged and powerful
    a muscular boxer
    powerful arms
    a hefty athlete

How To Use sinewy In A Sentence

  • But Manda noticed she was muscular, eyeing the corded veins and sinewy muscles along her forearms.
  • Physically, Close seems wrong: she is pointy of face, sinewy of frame.
  • Vic was seventeen, with sinewy muscles and his black hair swept back in an Elvis ducktail. OFF THE CHART
  • It was what might be termed a sinewy, knotty strength, of the kind we ascribe to lean and wiry men, but which, in him, because of his heavy build, partook more of the enlarged gorilla order. Chapter 2
  • He is tall, lean, sinewy and ready to stride the ranges. Times, Sunday Times
  • He was a powerfully built man, thick-necked, broad-shouldered, with sinewy wrists and toil-distorted hands. THE HOBO AND THE FAIRY
  • Her body is a mass of contradictions - strong yet frail-looking, sinewy yet delicate.
  • Cycling effortlessly between granite-hard drum excursions, creditable rapping and guitar riffage, the sinewy star seems hell-bent on vibing up the crowd.
  • Set into the center of his sinewy throat, just below the collar of his open-necked shirt, is a plastic breathing device about two inches in diameter.
  • 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.
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