sinewy
adjective
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Contemporary Examples of sinewy
His flesh is sagging a bit, but he is still trim and looks lean, sinewy and tough.
A sinewy woman emerges, stepping out onto the gray city sidewalk.
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Charles Ray has a suite of 15 ink-on-paper paintings in an adjacent room, depicting flowers with sinewy, rainbow-colored petals.
The sinewy muscles of his arms bunched together fiercely at his shoulder.
There was some talk, that maybe, just maybe, this sinewy kid would be a hell of a ticket asset.
Historical Examples of sinewy
Dilly was a very little woman, with abnormally long and sinewy arms.
Meadow GrassAlice Brown
But Modred was in the pride of youth; muscular and sinewy was the frame of Modred.
ImogenWilliam Godwin
The man is of a fine American type, sinewy, resolute, hawk-eyed.
Mountain MeditationsL. Lind-af-Hageby
Naked, lean-muscled and sinewy, Kashtanov paused before the door of the cage.
Raiders InvisibleDesmond Winter Hall
It was not as brown as hers, but the fingers were long and sinewy.
The Vagrant DukeGeorge Gibbs