How to Use sinewy in a Sentence

sinewy

adjective
  • The lion has a sinewy body.
  • The crowd is sinewy and sporty.
    — Grainne McBride, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 Jan. 2026
  • The steppe looks like a sinewy piece of yellow meat.
    — Literary Hub, 23 Jan. 2026
  • Moll has made the kind of sinewy procedural that makes your palms sweat.
    — Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 18 May 2025
  • The tricky part is that sometimes they’re sold with that sinewy tissue intact.
    — Mary Squillace, Robb Report, 27 Sep. 2024
  • 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
  • But his sinewy 6-foot-7 frame and steely façade provide only so much armor.
    — Sportsday Staff, Dallas News, 16 Apr. 2020
  • The best songs here are lean and sinewy showcases for his backing band, the Dark Clouds.
    — Stephen M. Deusner, Pitchfork, 11 Mar. 2026
  • But Kane’s suave moves at the time conflicted with hip-hop’s more sinewy direction.
    — Clover Hope, Pitchfork, 6 Sep. 2023
  • The sinewy forward kept tapping the little white ball to himself, off the wall, juggling it airborne.
    — Matt Porter, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Apr. 2023
  • War is a smaller film, more compact, sinewy thriller than grand drama of civilization.
    — Richard Lawson, HWD, 12 July 2017
  • Her limbs move quickly, as if this climb is innate to her – her skinny but sinewy muscles completely assured.
    — Dana Colecchia Getz, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 Sep. 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
  • That brisk storytelling economy is a good fit for Theron’s own terse, sinewy performance style.
    — Guy Lodge, Variety, 23 Apr. 2026
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • An easy misdiagnosis when looking into the brunette’s warm eyes, bright smile, and observing her tall, sinewy physique.
    — Valeriya Chupinina, ELLE, 25 Feb. 2023
  • The sinewy champion then cradled his wife, Presleigh, in his arm and kissed her at the front of the 18th green, along the water’s edge.
    — Edgar Thompson, The Orlando Sentinel, 9 Mar. 2026
  • Alongside their sinewy body form, the ancestors of seagrass carried with them from dry land two useful features that no sea creature possessed.
    — David George Haskell, Big Think, 27 Mar. 2026
  • Where Law and Paltrow are sinewy and bubbly, Flynn and Fanning are rugged, close-faced.
    — Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 4 Apr. 2024
  • 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
  • But the truth is that Neeson, with his towering presence and sinewy resolve, is always better than the movies themselves.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 1 Nov. 2024
  • 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
  • Sleek and sinewy, the cables are a key feature of Golden Gate Bridge architecture.
    — Rachel Swan, SFChronicle.com, 27 June 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
  • This sinewy rock version was recorded by the band in 1975 at a show in New York and remains a live favorite.
    — Melissa Ruggieri, USA Today, 4 Dec. 2025
  • 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

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