Sinew is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for SINEW in dictionary:

VERB:
• to bind as if by sinews
• strengthen with or as if with sinews
• To knit together, or make strong with, or as with, sinews.
• make strong
NOUN:
• a piece of tough fibrous tissue uniting muscle to bone; a tendon or ligament
• the parts of a structure, system, or organization that give it strength or bind it together
• tough fibrous tissue joining muscle to bone
• A tendon or tendonous tissue. See Tendon.
• Muscle; nerve.
• Fig.: That which supplies strength or power.
• a cord or band of inelastic tissue connecting a muscle with its bony attachment
• possessing muscular strength
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to strengthen

Words related to SINEW

sinewed11 sinewing12 sinewless12 sinews9

Words that contain SINEW

sinews9 sinewy12 insinew10 sinewed11 unsinew10 insinews11 sinewier11 sinewing12 unsinews11 insinewed13 sinewiest12 sinewless12 unsinewed13 insinewing14 sinewiness13 unsinewing14 sinewinesses15

How to use SINEW in a sentence

• Nicholas, it seemed, had given him a noose made of twisted sinew, and showed how it worked in a running loop.
• My joints were swollen with the bonds, and every sinew seemed as stiff as wire.
• Brain as well as sinew has its limitations and the night had been long and trying.
• They add equally to the wealth, and, considering money as the sinew of war, to the strength, of the nation.
• One of them had seized him by the right leg, and was biting him cruelly in the sinew above the heel.
• Ribaut was gone, and with him the pith and sinew of the colony.
• Those luminous curves, where the shadows have a golden tone, that tissue as firm as a sinew and as mobile as the most delicate membrane, is a crowning achievement of nature.
• Jacob could not doubt whether he had been with God when his sinew shrunk.
• The sinew, taken from the back of the animal, was scraped and hung from the roof to season, for he would need it later to use as thread with which to repair moccasins.
• Tulp is in black coat with lace collar and broad-brimmed soft hat, dissecting a sinew of the arm of the corpse before him.
• With Strauss everything is full of life and sinew, and there is nothing wasted.
• In spite of aching sinew and muscle, they had to stand like stone to escape the observation of evil eyes.
• Ruth liked this brown, lithe cowpuncher, all sinew and bone and muscle.
• This reserve power was something more than a combination of bone and sinew and flesh.
• He always wore round his neck a charm of a perforated bullet set between two glass beads hanging from a thread of sinew.
• These were manufactured from dried buffalo hides, which were sewed together with sinew, and so tightly that no water could penetrate the seams.
• A seal did not go very far, for each mouth in the little village had a right to be filled, and neither bone, hide, nor sinew was wasted.
• These old Elijahs that have been the bone and sinew of the town for so long that they think they own it, are about done for.
• If iron bolts were lacking so far from Europe as the width of two continents, the boat builders used deer sinew, or thongs of walrus hide.
• Northern capital and sinew is already on its way to that region.
• There was an abundance of land, and a great need of human sinew to make it lucrative.
• I have met them and mingled with them, the past three years, and I know the sinew and fibre of their courageous faith.
• Again, a slight accidental throb, or leap of a sinew or vein, may feel so like a touch that we turn round to see who touched us.
• That was the party containing the nerve and sinew of the order, which united only with the liberal patricians, and with them only on comparatively independent terms.
• I strained every nerve and sinew, but I might as well have attempted, with my single strength, to force the building itself from its foundations.
• Brutus, in express terms, says, he was weakened into length, and wanted sinew.
• Government relaxed in every sinew, and a corrupt selfish spirit pervading the whole.
• The principle penalty is the prompt criticism that although the successful business man plays the game with vigour, nerve, and sinew, yet he plays it according to his own rules.
• This brown, lithe man was all bone and sinew and muscle.
• For now the ambition that had grown with his growth had come to be more than bone of his bone and strength of his sinew.

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