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• s  (of meat) full of sinews; especially impossible to chew
• a  consisting of tendons or resembling a tendon
• s  (of a person) possessing physical strength and weight; rugged and powerful

• One moment they are sinewy, battered remnants of a discarded tradition.
• For about a month I was a spare, sinewy frontiersman in fringed buckskin, with crinkly little lines about the eyes and a slow laconic drawl.
• He is a large, strong man still, larger even than the sinewy climber who scaled the heights.

• fibrous
• stringy
• unchewable
• tendinous
• brawny
• hefty
• muscular
• powerful

News & Articles

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• Giant gecko grabs attention on 16th Street apartment project
  When workers peeled away construction tarp last week at a stylish new 16th Street apartment building, out popped a 32-foot, sinewy surprise. You've heard of art deco. Meet art gecko.
  June 13, 2013 - The Sacramento Bee

Quotes

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• Pete Carroll in SI.com
  It's not true to say he hasn't played,Carroll told me. "He has played, just not in regular-season games. But he's played against guys with NFL talent fighting to make NFL rosters. We've seen him make all the throws. He's sinewy, tall, real...
• Daniel in Los Angeles Times (blog)
  Joan Schenkar's new biography, "The Talented Miss Highsmith," has been earning raves; Daniel Mallory called it "splendid, sinewy ...... dazzling and definitive" in our pages.
• Halle Berry in Sydney Morning Herald
  It's definitely about woman empowerment and being in touch with your sexuality,Berry said. "With my body being more exposed, the idea was to be able to see my spine and the sinewy-ness of the muscles, things that are part of cats."