[
UK
/sˈɪnjuːi/
]
[ US /ˈsɪnjui/ ]
[ US /ˈsɪnjui/ ]
ADJECTIVE
- consisting of tendons or resembling a tendon
- (of meat) full of sinews; especially impossible to chew
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(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.
