[
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
- There were gobs of fat and sinewy bits throughout the whole rib cut - it was soooo wrong.
- 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
- 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.
- Inside, a sinewy, mustachioed fellow is tinkering with one of the machines.
- First, he did his little purr thing, followed by his sinewy arch thing.
- 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
- 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