Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Furnished with sinews.
- adjective Fig.: Equipped; strengthened.
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- adjective Furnished with
sinews . - adjective figuratively
Equipped ;strengthened .
Etymologies
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Examples
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His long frame was hard and lean, not given to bulging muscles but a sinewed toughness.
Western Man Janet Dailey 2011
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I am not an all-organic eater, except in the sense that I try not to eat things that are composed entirely of borosilicates, and I am too much the chemist's daughter (mighty-sinewed chemist's daughter!) not to make that joke.
mrissa: State of the Mris Report mrissa 2010
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His long frame was hard and lean, not given to bulging muscles but a sinewed toughness.
Western Man Janet Dailey 2011
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His hard, sinewed length seemed indelibly imprinted on her flesh, male in its contours.
Western Man Janet Dailey 2011
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I like 'Mighty-sinewed chemist's daughter' myself, though I suspect that's not a kenning because it's, y'know.
mrissa: Also mrissa 2010
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His hard, sinewed length seemed indelibly imprinted on her flesh, male in its contours.
Western Man Janet Dailey 2011
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He moved with ferocious grace, the eloquent symmetry of swirling arms and sinewed legs concealing his true speed.
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The Chilean's eyes popped from his head as he struggled furiously to tear away the steel-sinewed hand that had stopped off his breath.
"Terrors Unseen" by Harl Vincent, part 8 Johnny Pez 2008
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The Chilean's eyes popped from his head as he struggled furiously to tear away the steel-sinewed hand that had stopped off his breath.
Archive 2008-12-01 Johnny Pez 2008
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From his disappearing face in shadow deep below his sinewed neck, from his brawny football shoulders down his curling back and curving hips, from his wide, long thighs to his narrow, exquisite ankles, Stevie turned.
The Best American Erotica 2006 Edited by Susie Bright 2006
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