thews
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
Neither his great brain nor his little thews could prevail to make the yellow rivets sink to its place.
From Time Magazine Archive
What Coach Rockne's incomparable strategy had begun, Halfback Crowley's mighty thews executed.
From Time Magazine Archive
Surveyor W. J. Ma thews of Lloyds: "Two of the Rex's three turbodynamos were ready early this morning and the third was put in operation about 6 a. m. only to break down again."
From Time Magazine Archive
How fare, this many a day, The stubborn thews and ageless heart of Floyd?
From The Poetical Works of Robert Bridges by Bridges, Robert
Buck saw it start, infinitesimal as the time must have been from its inception to its execution—perhaps he felt the steel thews hardening under his hand—for he leaped backward simultaneously.
From A Maid of the Kentucky Hills by Litsey, Edwin Carlile
