sinew
noun
a tendon.
sinewless
-
a word derived from
sinew.
Example Sentences
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—Yes, Stephen said uncertainly because he thought he felt a strange kind of flesh of a different man approach him, sinewless and wobbly and all that.
From Ulysses by James Joyce
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
One stage was accomplished, but how stiff were his joints and how sinewless his fingers!
From She's All the World to Me by Sir Hall Caine
All the processes of her mind were slow, sinewless.
From The Unclassed by George Gissing
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
