How to Use sinewy in a Sentence

sinewy

adjective
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  • The lion has a sinewy body.
  • The man crossed his thin, sinewy arms across his chest.
    — Vladimir Sorokin, Harper's Magazine, 13 July 2022
  • His face is tanned and sinewy, with a trim white beard.
    — Joshua Yaffa, The New Yorker, 31 July 2023
  • The guys were playing in a more sinewy, blood and guts way.
    — Alex Heigl, PEOPLE.com, 27 Mar. 2018
  • The track is a mix of sinewy reggae and vintage Stones swagger.
    — Matt Wake | [email protected], al, 23 Apr. 2020
  • Seen from across the void, the surfaces look sinewy and powerful, like the hide of a giant beast.
    — Curbed, 25 Apr. 2023
  • Sharply creased, with a low roof and tiny slits for windows, the DB11 is sinewy and taut through the midsection and bulging at the wheels.
    — James Lipman, Car and Driver, 25 Aug. 2017
  • Ricky Vanasco is a sinewy 6-4 who just seems to materialize in front of you with the grace of a big cat.
    — Evan Grant, Dallas News, 17 Sep. 2021
  • Her sinewy body and quick movements kept Mr. Itanare, who is also her boyfriend, at bay.
    — New York Times, 2 June 2018
  • One of those late works is a standout in the show, a sinewy, crimson colored 1847 work Thunder God.
    — Roger Catlin, Smithsonian, 9 Dec. 2019
  • They were lightweight even for the time; sinewy and of course really good riders.
    — National Geographic, 23 June 2018
  • The ol' three-chopper slam The rest of the plot stretches the limits of human logic to a sinewy, gruesome extreme.
    — Sam MacHkovech, Ars Technica, 10 Aug. 2018
  • This is still the guy who wore a lot of cardigans in The Newsroom, albeit slightly more sinewy and much less jittery.
    — Matthew Jacobs, Vulture, 12 Mar. 2024
  • There's no shortage of sinewy strength (or mile-long limbs!) in the Hadid family.
    — Lauren Valenti, Vogue, 5 Aug. 2019
  • But his sinewy 6-foot-7 frame and steely façade provide only so much armor.
    — Sportsday Staff, Dallas News, 16 Apr. 2020
  • Where Law and Paltrow are sinewy and bubbly, Flynn and Fanning are rugged, close-faced.
    — Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 4 Apr. 2024
  • The sinewy forward kept tapping the little white ball to himself, off the wall, juggling it airborne.
    — Matt Porter, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Apr. 2023
  • But Kane’s suave moves at the time conflicted with hip-hop’s more sinewy direction.
    — Clover Hope, Pitchfork, 6 Sep. 2023
  • Meanwhile, shred the beef: Anchor one end of the flank steak with a carving fork and run a second fork the length of the steak, with the grain, shredding it into thin sinewy strips.
    — Mark Bittman, GQ, 26 Jan. 2018
  • Allen is lithe and sinewy and, in a Sun Ra T-shirt and cap, didn’t seem much changed from the guy on sax in the seventies or eighties, blowing and chanting and dancing.
    — Robert Sullivan, The New Yorker, 24 June 2024
  • Sleek and sinewy, the cables are a key feature of Golden Gate Bridge architecture.
    — Rachel Swan, SFChronicle.com, 27 June 2018
  • The sinewy hill and its glacial cousins — moraines, kettles and kames — make for a challenging winter hike, especially in deep snow.
    — Chelsey Lewis, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 8 Feb. 2018
  • And then there are her tattoos: menacing, full-sleeve designs up and down both of her sinewy, powerful arms.
    — Deaundra Allen, kansascity, 1 July 2018
  • Its design is sleek, sinewy, and timeless, and its drooping rear deck captures the essence of sporting sedans and sports cars from an earlier time.
    — Eric Stafford, Car and Driver, 12 July 2017
  • So few species of this lovely small tree seem to do well in heat and humidity, but here the old, sinewy Crataegus marshallii was stretching to a gap in the canopy.
    — Washington Post, 29 Oct. 2019
  • In a sport that demands an alchemy of sinewy resolve and high-altitude faith, Mr. Lama did everything his client did and more.
    — Bhadra Sharma, New York Times, 11 June 2024
  • Taylor-Stuart, a redshirt freshman, was a sinewy 6 foot 2 and as sticky in coverage as any corner in USC’s camp.
    — Ryan Kartje, Los Angeles Times, 23 Aug. 2019
  • The rifle is closest to the viewer and the polished wood handle and steel barrel sensuously echo the sinewy arms and bare torso of its owner.
    — Kim Sajet, Smithsonian, 23 Mar. 2018
  • Four years later, Lizandro was a sinewy 6-foot-1 center back with a high school diploma and a college scholarship.
    — Ben Teitelbaum, SI.com, 27 Feb. 2018
  • Now the saplings stood in neat rows, about as wild as a corn crop, as sinewy and fibrous as cotton, their young bodies bending easily in the winds of whatever change may come.
    — National Geographic, 13 Jan. 2020

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