Meanings of sinewy man in English

He was a finely made, sinewy man, with clearly cut, regular features.

Driscoll, of Driscoll's Scouts, is a thick-set, sinewy man, rather short than tall.

Lieutenant Ibe was a lean, sinewy man in his twenties.

The chief was past the prime of life, but still a powerful and sinewy man.

Then a little, sinewy man, old and beaten and gray, came out of the principal hogan.

Urzen stood outside his door, a sinewy man with a round shield slung over his back.

He was a slender sinewy man of medium height, dressed in riding breeches and an open-necked shirt.

He was in his late thirties, a lean, sinewy man with a pink complexion and hazel eyes.

At the far end of the line, a small, sinewy man stared straight ahead, not moving a muscle.

Count Arlest of Shale was a sinewy man in his early fifties, but he seemed exhausted, almost frail.

He was a thin, sinewy man, scantily clad in cotton trousers and a shirt wide open at the breast.

He was not only a tall, strong country boy: he soon grew to be a tall, strong, sinewy man.

Fazir Khan sat smoking next the tree trunk, a short, sinewy man with a square, Aryan face, clear-cut and cruel.

A sinewy man with a wispy beard and penetrating dark eyes, he had become a charismatic popular leader, especially in northeastern Afghanistan.

She grew somewhat alarmed, however, when she saw how many people the dhow's captain, a sinewy man in a loincloth, was letting on.

Normally she avoided pedicabs, there being something feudal and horrible about being pulled around in a cart by a sweating, brown, sinewy man.