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Definition of sinew in English: sinewnoun ˈsɪnjuːˈsɪnju 1A piece of tough fibrous tissue uniting muscle to bone; a tendon or ligament. mass noun he was all muscle and sinew Example sentencesExamples - They control the sinews (muscles and joints), and their health is reflected in the finger and toe nails.
- I could hear the scraping of bone against bone, the snapping of tendons and sinews as they parted and tore, making way for what would come.
- The sight of death and destruction, the gore, the exposed sinew and bone, the open skulls and slaughtered children does not bother me.
- Tendons and sinews are still used for sewing and putting together the cone shaped Laitok tents; the antlers for fashioning tools, fishing hooks and ornaments.
- The treatment of the musculature is sensitive, with veins, sinews, and tendons clearly depicted.
- Tough sinew was made from their tendons for stitching the heavy hides together.
- She learned how to strip the sinews from the tendons and make the string for the bow, how to select the best willows for the shaft of the arrows, how to bind the goose quills to the shaft with gut and gum.
- Surely he's made of rubber and elastic, rather than skin and bone, muscles and sinews.
- Joy surged through his blood, through his sinews, through his bones.
- Noticing that there was little meat on the sucker and heeding the cook's warning that the sinew was pretty tough, I passed.
- If a truck or a tank should appear, I am mushed with all sinews and bones irretrievably crushed.
- The liver then may fail to nourish the sinews; muscles develop tension and weakness.
- This Orisha indicates medicines which tone the tendons and sinews.
- In Movement of Animals Aristotle likened the body's actions to those of a marionette, in that the bones correspond to the pegs and the sinews to the strings which cause movements.
- The sinews and muscles of the jet black steeds bulged and rippled as they trotted the coach around so that it pointed properly down the Beget Road.
- She was tall, but, unlike Solange, she was composed less of sinews and bone, but rather of elegantly-developed womanly curves.
- An egg contains water within its beautiful smooth surface; and an unformed mass, by the incubation of the parent, becomes a regular animal, furnished with bones and sinews, and covered with feathers.
- Slow cooked, the sinew that makes meat tough becomes jelly.
- Tendons were severed, sinews slit and flesh shredded.
- The painting of the sixth stage captures the network of sinews and muscles that appear under the parched skin.
Synonyms tower of strength, key player, right-hand man, right-hand woman, right arm, atlas - 1.1usually sinews The parts of a structure, system, or organization that give it strength or bind it together.
Example sentencesExamples - Electricity and water on tap ease the burden of domestic labour for African women, but they may also help to snap some of the remaining sinews that hold together old rural lifestyles.
- This diversified, far flung structure didn't have the management sinews in place to enable it to run normally.
- Ecclesiastical organisation has become the sinew and muscle of the Republican party.
- But what we have is quite enough to be going on with: a bracingly intelligent documentary that treats its audience like grown-ups and has the force and sinew of real history and real politics.
- They succeeded in destroying the bones and sinews of the post-war settlement: heavy industry and the industrial public sector.
- It is the theme that lends strength to the sheer ingenuity of SF, sinews to mere fancy.
- Of course, finding the sinews to knit together your comedy muscles can be tricky.
- Again, there was no grandstanding, no implication that the nation needed to have its resolve stiffened or its sinews strengthened.
- Students and fledgling writers are constantly warned away from adjectives and told to give their writing strength and sinew with judiciously chosen nouns and verbs.
- By opening ourselves to the presence of the Spirit, we can receive the sinews of divine strength, enabling us to move in his power.
- In this silence, alert us to the wailing of people in peril, awaken us to possibilities of perfection, attune us to the sinews of strength that we share, so that our hands will not be lifted in destruction.
- Sourav's men may have faltered at the World Cup finals but camps like these do hint at a team that is busy broadening its vision and strengthening its sinews.
- This is by no means to imply that the X-Trail feels scantily put together or without sinew, nor that all its body panels will drop off as soon as you bump its reconfigured alloys up on to a kerb.
verb ˈsɪnjuːˈsɪnju [with object]usually as adjective sinewedliterary Strengthen with or as if with sinews. the sinewed shape of his back Example sentencesExamples - The giant, sinewed fighter turned his head to the cave entrance.
- One must be conscious that the culture of catastrophic memorialisation is sinewed with manipulations, lacunae and corruptions of historical reality.
Origin Old English sin(e)we 'tendon', of Germanic origin; related to Dutch zeen and German Sehne. Definition of sinew in US English: sinewnounˈsinyo͞oˈsɪnju 1A piece of tough fibrous tissue uniting muscle to bone or bone to bone; a tendon or ligament. Example sentencesExamples - Tendons and sinews are still used for sewing and putting together the cone shaped Laitok tents; the antlers for fashioning tools, fishing hooks and ornaments.
- An egg contains water within its beautiful smooth surface; and an unformed mass, by the incubation of the parent, becomes a regular animal, furnished with bones and sinews, and covered with feathers.
- The treatment of the musculature is sensitive, with veins, sinews, and tendons clearly depicted.
- Tough sinew was made from their tendons for stitching the heavy hides together.
- They control the sinews (muscles and joints), and their health is reflected in the finger and toe nails.
- The sight of death and destruction, the gore, the exposed sinew and bone, the open skulls and slaughtered children does not bother me.
- This Orisha indicates medicines which tone the tendons and sinews.
- In Movement of Animals Aristotle likened the body's actions to those of a marionette, in that the bones correspond to the pegs and the sinews to the strings which cause movements.
- She was tall, but, unlike Solange, she was composed less of sinews and bone, but rather of elegantly-developed womanly curves.
- Noticing that there was little meat on the sucker and heeding the cook's warning that the sinew was pretty tough, I passed.
- Slow cooked, the sinew that makes meat tough becomes jelly.
- Tendons were severed, sinews slit and flesh shredded.
- If a truck or a tank should appear, I am mushed with all sinews and bones irretrievably crushed.
- The painting of the sixth stage captures the network of sinews and muscles that appear under the parched skin.
- The liver then may fail to nourish the sinews; muscles develop tension and weakness.
- I could hear the scraping of bone against bone, the snapping of tendons and sinews as they parted and tore, making way for what would come.
- Surely he's made of rubber and elastic, rather than skin and bone, muscles and sinews.
- The sinews and muscles of the jet black steeds bulged and rippled as they trotted the coach around so that it pointed properly down the Beget Road.
- She learned how to strip the sinews from the tendons and make the string for the bow, how to select the best willows for the shaft of the arrows, how to bind the goose quills to the shaft with gut and gum.
- Joy surged through his blood, through his sinews, through his bones.
Synonyms tower of strength, key player, right-hand man, right-hand woman, right arm, atlas - 1.1usually sinews The parts of a structure, system, or thing that give it strength or bind it together.
Example sentencesExamples - Electricity and water on tap ease the burden of domestic labour for African women, but they may also help to snap some of the remaining sinews that hold together old rural lifestyles.
- They succeeded in destroying the bones and sinews of the post-war settlement: heavy industry and the industrial public sector.
- But what we have is quite enough to be going on with: a bracingly intelligent documentary that treats its audience like grown-ups and has the force and sinew of real history and real politics.
- Of course, finding the sinews to knit together your comedy muscles can be tricky.
- By opening ourselves to the presence of the Spirit, we can receive the sinews of divine strength, enabling us to move in his power.
- This is by no means to imply that the X-Trail feels scantily put together or without sinew, nor that all its body panels will drop off as soon as you bump its reconfigured alloys up on to a kerb.
- It is the theme that lends strength to the sheer ingenuity of SF, sinews to mere fancy.
- Sourav's men may have faltered at the World Cup finals but camps like these do hint at a team that is busy broadening its vision and strengthening its sinews.
- Again, there was no grandstanding, no implication that the nation needed to have its resolve stiffened or its sinews strengthened.
- This diversified, far flung structure didn't have the management sinews in place to enable it to run normally.
- Students and fledgling writers are constantly warned away from adjectives and told to give their writing strength and sinew with judiciously chosen nouns and verbs.
- Ecclesiastical organisation has become the sinew and muscle of the Republican party.
- In this silence, alert us to the wailing of people in peril, awaken us to possibilities of perfection, attune us to the sinews of strength that we share, so that our hands will not be lifted in destruction.
verbˈsinyo͞oˈsɪnju [with object]usually as adjective sinewedliterary Strengthen with or as if with sinews. the sinewed shape of his back Example sentencesExamples - The giant, sinewed fighter turned his head to the cave entrance.
- One must be conscious that the culture of catastrophic memorialisation is sinewed with manipulations, lacunae and corruptions of historical reality.
Origin Old English sin(e)we ‘tendon’, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch zeen and German Sehne. |