sinew
IPA: sˈɪnju
noun
- (anatomy) A cord or tendon of the body.
- A cord or string, particularly (music) as of a musical instrument.
- (figuratively) Muscular power, muscle; nerve, nervous energy; vigor, vigorous strength.
- (figuratively, often in the plural) That which gives strength or in which strength consists; a supporting factor or member; mainstay.
- (anatomy, obsolete) A nerve.
verb
- (transitive) To knit together or make strong with, or as if with, sinews.
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Examples of "sinew" in Sentences
- His arms have sinews.
- The sinew could have been used as a garrotte.
- Tough sinew is the result of hard muscular action.
- The earliest tools were stone, bone, wood, and sinew.
- You strengthen their sinews anew for the next hectic furlong.
- And strings them nested onto strands of sinew from a tule deer
- The young day's strength is ours in sinew and thew and muscle,
- The layer of sinew was at the outer face as it resists expansion.
- The goggles were held to the head by a cord made of caribou sinew.
- Carefully removing all of the sinew can greatly improve the flavor.
- I was careful in removing the sinews so as to ease their spirits'pain.
- The first stone throwing artillery also used the elastic properties of sinew.
- The tongue of the chameleon is a complex arrangement of bone, muscle and sinew.
- He preaches what he calls the sinew and bone of doctrine, and he is very stern in the pulpit.
- The word sinew, by the way, is exactly equal to our word nerve, and ayenward, as our author would say.
- Matching him sinew for sinew is Wes Studi as the bloodcurdlingly vengeful villain Magua, who vows to rip the heart out of an old adversary.
- The sinew is carefully extracted; and where there are no persons skilled enough for that operation, they do not make use of the hind legs at all.
- I might slip, and get a sprain or break a sinew, or something, and I should like to know that there is a practitioner at hand to take care of my injury.
- Probably a desperate hand-to-hand fight would have ensued, for Fergus McKay had much of the bone, muscle, and sinew, that is characteristic of his race, but a blow from an unseen weapon stunned him, and when his senses returned he found himself bound hand and foot lying in the bottom of a canoe.
- By Great Britain and her Colonies continually sending a vast amount of their trade to our neighbours to the south, or to the rival nation of Germany in Europe, we are deflecting that much capital and muscle and sinew from the Empire to develop outside countries, and it must always be a material sacrifice to ourselves.
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