sinew

How to use sinew in a sentence

Its frame is still thick with sinew, and there’s some kind of membrane around its chest cavity, which lights up.

For I knew that thou art stubborn, and thy neck is as an iron sinew, and thy forehead as brass.

These arrow-heads have generally a shoulder where the arrow was set into the shaft, there to be bound tightly with sinew or fiber.

It is the nerve that accompanies the sinew, and Howell Gruffydd now receives and despatches telegrams.

The diaphragm is peculiar in that it is somewhat circular in shape and is more or less tendinous or sinew-like in the middle.

She roused all her energies; strained every sinew, and put forth all her remaining strength.

ROOKWOODWILLIAM HARRISON AINSWORTH

The personal daring of Victor Emmanuel is the bone and sinew of the Piedmontese movement.

TONY BUTLERCHARLES JAMES LEVER

For the hamlet and the outlying cottage are the springs whence the sinew and muscle of populous cities are derived.

Kansas, according to Greeley's expressive phrase, "was steadily hardening into the bone and sinew of a Free State."

Let but a hostile hand make threat again, And they shall see thee in thy ancient strength, Each iron sinew quivering, lioness!

SYNONYM OF THE DAY

OCTOBER 26, 1985