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Definition of sinewy in English: sinewyadjective ˈsɪnjuːiˈsɪnjuwi 1Consisting of or resembling sinews. Example sentencesExamples - Comprised of a long sinewy pull followed by a spry frog kick, the pulldown is a holy moment of shrouded watery silence.
- Gage is 6-4,212 pounds, with long, sinewy legs.
- There were gobs of fat and sinewy bits throughout the whole rib cut - it was soooo wrong.
- Hanger steak is as good as the one in the Paris outpost, sinewy, briny, and full of brash flavor.
- William could feel the statues pressing into his back, their sinewy shapes slithering against his skin.
- The crowd focuses on Wesley Bunch, a tanned, sinewy mountaineer from Jackson with a massive blond afro.
- It was described as ' sinewy ' and ' packing a punch ' by the medical writer Galen.
- It was served like the others with rice, red and green peppers and onions, but the lamb was sinewy.
- Then swiftly pulled it through the sinewy cord, laughing triumphantly he held huge severed equine testicle up for Berdan to see!
- There's a sinewy onion strand nestled between them.
- As the sinewy red mass ascended through clear fluid, a bizarre blob formed at the tip, broke loose, and floated upward.
- This is a magnificent top, the hub of four sinewy ridges that radiate from the summit to form the apex of five huge corries.
- Supporting this sinewy armor plate was a rib cage that seemed to have been designed more for a silverback gorilla than a man.
Synonyms muscular, well muscled, muscly, brawny, well built, powerfully built, burly, strapping, sturdy, rugged, strong, powerful, broad-shouldered, athletic, well knit, muscle-bound, Herculean, manly informal hunky, beefy, husky, ripped, shredded North American informal buff US informal jacked dated stalwart literary thewy Physiology mesomorphic - 1.1 (of a person or animal) lean and muscular.
a short, sinewy, sunburnt man figurative the language is spare and sinewy Example sentencesExamples - His thin, sinewy frame is a testimony to his inability to earn a decent wage.
- He plunges into each situation without preamble, then utilizes sinewy, staccato prose to snare our attention.
- First, he did his little purr thing, followed by his sinewy arch thing.
- Rico stretched his arms, sinewy roped muscle rippling beneath the thin, sweaty T-shirt fabric.
- The sinewy first movement, which is the most concise in the whole of Bax's symphonic cycle, packs a powerful punch.
- Charlton is looking, in language, for something beyond what he calls "the sinewy slippage of language"'.
- The river is brown, sinewy, convulsing like electrically stimulated muscle.
- Her body is a mass of contradictions - strong yet frail-looking, sinewy yet delicate.
- Inside, a sinewy, mustachioed fellow is tinkering with one of the machines.
- The band's 1998 debut Hope Is Important was chock full of sinewy indie-punk riffs.
- Drinking his orange juice he watches her flick through a Vogue, stopping to examine the androgynous, sinewy form of some teenage model.
- Viola was a small, sinewy, speedy hurricane, spewing surprises with every contraction.
- With the help of two sinewy coolies next to him, he rose to his feet.
- She says protection is the fiercest instinct — sinewy, jagged, unpredictable.
- A place where the contours of the land itself forms a kind of sinewy poetry.
- A spare, sinewy ascetic, he gazes at the crucifix with an emotional intensity unseen in paintings of the early 1470s.
- He was a small, sinewy man, 67 years old.
- Physically, Close seems wrong: she is pointy of face, sinewy of frame.
- His sinewy body gives him a youthful appearance belying his 56 years.
- He'll bring his sinewy, rhythmic pieces to life on stage with the help of members of the Kalmunity crew.
Definition of sinewy in US English: sinewyadjectiveˈsɪnjuwiˈsinyo͞owē 1Consisting of or resembling sinews. Example sentencesExamples - Then swiftly pulled it through the sinewy cord, laughing triumphantly he held huge severed equine testicle up for Berdan to see!
- It was served like the others with rice, red and green peppers and onions, but the lamb was sinewy.
- Gage is 6-4,212 pounds, with long, sinewy legs.
- There's a sinewy onion strand nestled between them.
- This is a magnificent top, the hub of four sinewy ridges that radiate from the summit to form the apex of five huge corries.
- As the sinewy red mass ascended through clear fluid, a bizarre blob formed at the tip, broke loose, and floated upward.
- Comprised of a long sinewy pull followed by a spry frog kick, the pulldown is a holy moment of shrouded watery silence.
- There were gobs of fat and sinewy bits throughout the whole rib cut - it was soooo wrong.
- William could feel the statues pressing into his back, their sinewy shapes slithering against his skin.
- Supporting this sinewy armor plate was a rib cage that seemed to have been designed more for a silverback gorilla than a man.
- The crowd focuses on Wesley Bunch, a tanned, sinewy mountaineer from Jackson with a massive blond afro.
- Hanger steak is as good as the one in the Paris outpost, sinewy, briny, and full of brash flavor.
- It was described as ' sinewy ' and ' packing a punch ' by the medical writer Galen.
Synonyms muscular, well muscled, muscly, brawny, well built, powerfully built, burly, strapping, sturdy, rugged, strong, powerful, broad-shouldered, athletic, well knit, muscle-bound, herculean, manly - 1.1 (of a person or animal) lean and muscular.
a short, sinewy, sunburnt man figurative the language is spare and sinewy Example sentencesExamples - First, he did his little purr thing, followed by his sinewy arch thing.
- Charlton is looking, in language, for something beyond what he calls "the sinewy slippage of language"'.
- He'll bring his sinewy, rhythmic pieces to life on stage with the help of members of the Kalmunity crew.
- A spare, sinewy ascetic, he gazes at the crucifix with an emotional intensity unseen in paintings of the early 1470s.
- The band's 1998 debut Hope Is Important was chock full of sinewy indie-punk riffs.
- He plunges into each situation without preamble, then utilizes sinewy, staccato prose to snare our attention.
- A place where the contours of the land itself forms a kind of sinewy poetry.
- She says protection is the fiercest instinct — sinewy, jagged, unpredictable.
- He was a small, sinewy man, 67 years old.
- Viola was a small, sinewy, speedy hurricane, spewing surprises with every contraction.
- His sinewy body gives him a youthful appearance belying his 56 years.
- With the help of two sinewy coolies next to him, he rose to his feet.
- His thin, sinewy frame is a testimony to his inability to earn a decent wage.
- 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.
- Physically, Close seems wrong: she is pointy of face, sinewy of frame.
- The sinewy first movement, which is the most concise in the whole of Bax's symphonic cycle, packs a powerful punch.
- The river is brown, sinewy, convulsing like electrically stimulated muscle.
- Drinking his orange juice he watches her flick through a Vogue, stopping to examine the androgynous, sinewy form of some teenage model.
- Her body is a mass of contradictions - strong yet frail-looking, sinewy yet delicate.
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