(Of a person) possessing physical strength and weight; rugged and powerful.
(Of meat) full of sinews; especially impossible to chew.
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Examples for "powerful "
Examples for "powerful "
1 I believe those who are most powerful use their power for good.
2 Skelos is the second powerful legislative leader to stand trial this year.
3 Iran is more powerful today than if Saddam been left in power.
4 For that to actually happen, powerful countries need to be held accountable.
5 Vaccines are probably the most powerful public health intervention available to us.
1 Some people perform the muscular labor in societies; others, the mental labor.
2 He saw a rugged, muscular body, well toned and used to work.
3 Just one problem with your muscular humanism there-thatsecond ship wasn't Martian.
4 The yo-he-ho theory: cries in common muscular effort, as in sailors' chantys.
5 Introduction: The scapular muscular system is the major determinant of scapular positioning.
1 However, pirates often treat hostages well in the hope of hefty ransoms.
2 McLaughlin said the championship was not over yet despite his hefty lead.
3 There are particularly abundant crops of hefty blackfly and greenfly this year.
4 Punishment includes a hefty fine and imprisonment for up to a year.
5 Recent investigations have ensnared major global lenders and led to hefty fines.
1 There are shiny new sport utility vehicles, brawny pickups and sleek saloons.
2 The cloud-giants had broken up: a brawny shoulder smouldered over the sea.
3 One was a brawny giant in undershirt and overalls that appeared filthy.
4 Jones, erect, rugged, brawny , stood in the full light of the campfire.
5 A brawny trooper toppled over with a great hole in his head.
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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