(Of a person) possessing physical strength and weight; rugged and powerful.
(Of meat) full of sinews; especially impossible to chew.
Consisting of tendons or resembling a tendon.
1 A sinewy form in the shadows of the pines appeared and disappeared.
2 He had noticed more than once the sinewy fingers of the Chinaman.
3 I was tough and sinewy , and knew not the meaning of luxury.
4 Or at the monster: a tall, sinewy thing, but definitely not human.
5 His muscles, in spite of his fifty-four years, were strong and sinewy .
6 Another step, and he could have reached her with his sinewy arm.
7 It was like taking hold of a snake, strong, sinewy , and wriggling.
8 The sheep was graceful, sinewy , slender, powerfully built, and in poise magnificent.
9 In these mouldering, crumbling tubs of stone, they laved their sinewy limbs.
10 At that the sheriff thrust out a long, brown and sinewy hand.
11 Beside the Mississippians lay a regiment of long-legged, sinewy riflemen from Arkansas.
12 His frame was lean, but broad and sinewy , indicative of considerable strength.
13 Then his sinewy hand closed on the collar of the swindler's coat.
14 A sinewy hand grasped his wrist and twisted his right arm free.
15 His figure was lithe and sinewy , his movements quick and not ungraceful.
16 Here was Latin worth reading; rich, sinewy , idiomatic, full of flavour, masculine.
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