How To Use Sinewy In A Sentence
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There were gobs of fat and sinewy bits throughout the whole rib cut - it was soooo wrong.
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My eyes followed his sinewy, shirtless body and the huge lion tattooed across his chest and back.
Times, Sunday Times
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Again, the unabridged dictionary gives "sinewy" as its first definition of "nervous.
The Human Brain
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A lean, lithe, grizzly looking fellow, supple, agile with a leathery skin and sinewy.
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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.
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Inside, a sinewy, mustachioed fellow is tinkering with one of the machines.
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First, he did his little purr thing, followed by his sinewy arch thing.
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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
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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.
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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
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A spare, sinewy ascetic, he gazes at the crucifix with an emotional intensity unseen in paintings of the early 1470s.
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From hip to hock long and sinewy, hock to pad short and strong.
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Then swiftly pulled it through the sinewy cord, laughing triumphantly he held huge severed equine testicle up for Berdan to see!
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a sinewy cut of beef.
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Viola was a small, sinewy, speedy hurricane, spewing surprises with every contraction.
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There's a sinewy onion strand nestled between them.
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Gage is 6-4,212 pounds, with long, sinewy legs.
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Rico stretched his arms, sinewy roped muscle rippling beneath the thin, sweaty T-shirt fabric.
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Inside, a sinewy, mustachioed fellow is tinkering with one of the machines.
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His fingers closed around the sinewy handle of the knife the father had shown him, and he lifted it out of the drawer.
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Notably, all aural analogues share the same sinewy, coruscant guitar work.
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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
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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
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He'll bring his sinewy, rhythmic pieces to life on stage with the help of members of the Kalmunity crew.
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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
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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.
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Sinewy and sensuous, these preparatory masterworks are anatomical wonders capturing the longings of the famously impetuous painter.
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His thin, sinewy frame is a testimony to his inability to earn a decent wage.
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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
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Comprised of a long sinewy pull followed by a spry frog kick, the pulldown is a holy moment of shrouded watery silence.
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The instructor of visual arts was in his middle forties, equipped with a sinewy body and a receding hairline.
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The sinewy first movement, which is the most concise in the whole of Bax's symphonic cycle, packs a powerful punch.
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She says protection is the fiercest instinct — sinewy, jagged, unpredictable.
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The sinewy neck and its prominent adam's apple, the all-too-heavy make-up, the pronounced muscles on the legs and arms.
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His sinewy body gives him a youthful appearance belying his 56 years.
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And started laying into the sinewy buffalo forequarter.
2009 December — Fusion Despatches
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Her strong, sinewy delivery has always set her apart.
The Sun
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He was a small, sinewy man, 67 years old.
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His body is sinewy and slightly weary.
Times, Sunday Times
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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
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She is a small, red-haired woman with an air of sinewy defiance.
Times, Sunday Times
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It was described as ' sinewy ' and ' packing a punch ' by the medical writer Galen.
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I admire her sinewy prose style.
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Charlton is looking, in language, for something beyond what he calls "the sinewy slippage of language"'.
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ShecallsMadonna's body “fatless” and “sinewy”, her face “pointy” and “feline”.
Op-Ed: The Real Motivation Behind the Madonna-Bashing
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This is a magnificent top, the hub of four sinewy ridges that radiate from the summit to form the apex of five huge corries.
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A place where the contours of the land itself forms a kind of sinewy poetry.
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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
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The charm of German is that it has both muscular nouns and sinewy sentence structure.
Times, Sunday Times
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I have to look away as he launches his sinewy body onto her hard surface and disappears into the sunrise.
Times, Sunday Times
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Now that it's been pepped up with a turbo-charged engine, it's a really sinewy drive...
Times, Sunday Times
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The band reduces electric boogie and original punk-funk to their sinewy essences, with enough sleaze, sass and drunken merriment to power a pimpmobile.
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It was served like the others with rice, red and green peppers and onions, but the lamb was sinewy.
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He plunges into each situation without preamble, then utilizes sinewy, staccato prose to snare our attention.
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The runner was tall and sinewy.
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The delicate traceries of individual drawings mingle and tangle with each other, creating labyrinths of wings, teeth and sinewy limbs.
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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
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The runner was tall and sinewy.
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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.
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Inside, a sinewy, mustachioed fellow is tinkering with one of the machines.
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You can tell the regulars: sinewy local men in white shirts with red bandannas at their throats, some wearing red sashes.
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But Manda noticed she was muscular, eyeing the corded veins and sinewy muscles along her forearms.
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Books that length struggle to find a publisher these days, so this kind of sinewy masterpiece is a dying art-form.
:Acquired Taste
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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.
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As the sinewy red mass ascended through clear fluid, a bizarre blob formed at the tip, broke loose, and floated upward.
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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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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.
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Cycling effortlessly between granite-hard drum excursions, creditable rapping and guitar riffage, the sinewy star seems hell-bent on vibing up the crowd.
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Her body is a mass of contradictions - strong yet frail-looking, sinewy yet delicate.
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He was a powerfully built man, thick-necked, broad-shouldered, with sinewy wrists and toil-distorted hands.
THE HOBO AND THE FAIRY
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He is tall, lean, sinewy and ready to stride the ranges.
Times, Sunday Times
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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
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Vic was seventeen, with sinewy muscles and his black hair swept back in an Elvis ducktail.
OFF THE CHART
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Physically, Close seems wrong: she is pointy of face, sinewy of frame.
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Grilled flank steak is marvelously roast-beefy, sinewy and heady with adobo spice.
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The river is brown, sinewy, convulsing like electrically stimulated muscle.
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Hanger steak is as good as the one in the Paris outpost, sinewy, briny, and full of brash flavor.
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I intend to discuss just that in sinewy masculine prose.
A Giant Leap For Personkind ?
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The poems in this collection are spare, sinewy, and often disturbing in their sense of detachedness, both in a sense of remove as with a sense of having been, with a shocking blow, been severed from important connections, from loved ones, lovers. they are a selevtion from Tkaczyszyn-Dycki's previously-unEnglished nine books of poetry, published beteen 1990 and
SYCAMORE REVIEW
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Her heart was thumping, fear wrapped its sinewy limbs around her throat.
LOST SUMMER
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The tall and sinewy monk, without a moment's hesitation, dragged me up and half carried, half led me into a kind of auberge, or restaurant for the poorer classes.
Vendetta: a story of one forgotten
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Supporting this sinewy armor plate was a rib cage that seemed to have been designed more for a silverback gorilla than a man.
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The crowd focuses on Wesley Bunch, a tanned, sinewy mountaineer from Jackson with a massive blond afro.
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With the help of two sinewy coolies next to him, he rose to his feet.
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He passed his broad sinewy hand across his brow, as if to obliterate these signs of emotion, and advanced towards Annot, holding in his hand a very small box made of oakwood, curiously inlaid.
A Legend of Montrose
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Down came the Scots, and they were cut up at Flodden, by Surrey, later made Duke of Norfolk: the Norfolk that was then, not the Norfolk that is now, that sinewy little twitcher constantly twitching toward his advantage.
Cromwell & Wolsey: From 'Wolf Hall'
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Soror is best known for her electrifying and primordial forests, "ancient trees," and bodacious flowers, but she also makes avatar adornments such as sinewy and curvilinear antlers, and brightly colored jewelry.
Soror Nishi: "Your computer screen is stained glass"
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It turned men's faces to dry rinds, and reduced their bodies to quiddities of sinewy endurance.
A ROOMFUL OF BIRDS - SCOTTISH SHORT STORIES 1990
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The sinewy neck and its prominent adam's apple, the all-too-heavy make-up, the pronounced muscles on the legs and arms.
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William could feel the statues pressing into his back, their sinewy shapes slithering against his skin.
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You can tell the regulars: sinewy local men in white shirts with red bandannas at their throats, some wearing red sashes.
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To the man who has inherited too large, wide, sinewy hands, and a brain that under the microscope looks like a hepatized lung, it seems some days as though the field had been over-crowded when he entered it.
Remarks
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I'm not sure if there's any way to adapt JE without making the plot seem cheap and rickety; without Bronte's sinewy sentences--what the Victorians would have called "racy"--the events all too easily devolve into the stuff of pure pop fiction.
Jane Eyre (1)
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Eagle Ridge is a muscular course, with bulging mounds and sinewy swales framing the targets at every turn.
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Drinking his orange juice he watches her flick through a Vogue, stopping to examine the androgynous, sinewy form of some teenage model.
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This is a magnificent top, the hub of four sinewy ridges that radiate from the summit to form the apex of five huge corries.
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The band's 1998 debut Hope Is Important was chock full of sinewy indie-punk riffs.
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This is a magnificent top, the hub of four sinewy ridges that radiate from the summit to form the apex of five huge corries.
