sinew
noun
a tendon.
sinewless
-
a word derived from
sinew.
Example Sentences
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You thus convey to us more largely and expeditiously the stores of your understanding and imagination, than you ever could by sonnets or canzonets, or sinewless and sapless allegories.
From Imaginary Conversations and Poems A Selection by Walter Savage Landor
Here is the reason why we have such a host of stillborn, sinewless, ricketty, powerless spiritual children.
From Godliness : being reports of a series of addresses delivered at James's Hall, London, W. during 1881 by Catherine Mumford Booth
On such days as these he was conscious of the futility of his existence, the odious insignificance of his sinewless, empty life; useless, aimless, null!
From Footsteps of Fate by Louis Couperus
All the processes of her mind were slow, sinewless.
From The Unclassed by George Gissing
It was piteous to see them wandering about with feeble and sinewless steps, and vacant eyes, staring timidly at the noisy people, and shrinking dismayed from the throngs of sympathizing questioners which gathered round them.
From The Duke of Stockbridge by Edward Bellamy
