How do you use Sinew in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like tendon or brawn, plus the exact meaning.
Sinew meaning
- A cord or tendon of the body.
- A cord or string, particularly (music) as of a musical instrument.
- Muscular power, muscle; nerve, nervous energy; vigor, vigorous strength.
Synonyms of Sinew
Using Sinew
- The main meaning on this page is: A cord or tendon of the body. | A cord or string, particularly (music) as of a musical instrument. | Muscular power, muscle; nerve, nervous energy; vigor, vigorous strength.
- Useful related words include: tendon, connective tissue, brawn, brawniness.
- In the example corpus, sinew often appears in combinations such as: the sinew, and sinew, sinew and.
Context around Sinew
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.5 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 13 middle, 4 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Sinew
- In this selection, "sinew" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 24.5 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, animal, heart, tendon, via, glued and may stand out and add context to how "sinew" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include because the sinew strings become and blood heart sinew and febrile. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "sinew" sits close to words such as aaj, abn and aboriginals, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with sinew
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Sinew was used for bowstrings and sewing thread. (8 words)
The arbalest was a heavy crossbow which required special systems for pulling the sinew via windlasses. (16 words)
Multiple bow systems have a special system of pulling the sinew via several bows (which can be recurve bows). (19 words)
The slider passed through the field frames of the weapon, in which were located the torsion springs (rope made of animal sinew ), which were twisted around the bow arms, which in turn, were attached to the bowstring. (37 words)
We should probably talk about Kara Young and how this woman can fit what feels like a mountain of blood, heart, sinew and febrile emotional response into a frame that can’t stretch past five feet. (36 words)
The weapon uses several different bows instead of one bow with a tackle system to achieve a higher acceleration of the sinew via the multiplication with each bow's pulling effect. (31 words)
Example sentences (19)
Law, defense, and security and intelligence portfolios are the muscle and sinew of big government and underpin the incipient tyranny we’ve experienced for four long years.
We should probably talk about Kara Young and how this woman can fit what feels like a mountain of blood, heart, sinew and febrile emotional response into a frame that can’t stretch past five feet.
County Championship cricket returned for a one-off August special, and strained every sinew to grab a little attention from Lord’s.
The Japanese strained every sinew to stay in the rallies and managed to draw parity at 15-15 with a smash.
This dynamism was reflected back across the concert platform, every muscle, tendon, sinew and synapsis of the assembled musicians spurred into action by their shared purpose.
These are dynamic works of great boldness and intensity, and taken together they constitute a sustained and profoundly sensuous interrogation of the flesh, of carnality – of blood, skin and sinew.
Composite bows are made from layers of different material, often wood, horn, and sinew glued together and bound with animal tendon.
However, Robert Connolly, a lecturer in physical anthropology, suggests that the sinew may have been ornamental and that ligature marks may have been caused by the body swelling when submerged.
More accurately, it is scraped so as not to let even the slightest of the sinew fat get into the scraped meat.
Multiple bow systems have a special system of pulling the sinew via several bows (which can be recurve bows).
Sinew was used for bowstrings and sewing thread.
Snowshoes are made by lashing reindeer sinew and hide strips to a tennis racket -shaped birch bark or willow hoop.
The arbalest was a heavy crossbow which required special systems for pulling the sinew via windlasses.
The ligature marks on the neck were caused by the tightening of the sinew cord found around his neck, possibly a garrotte or necklace.
The rain prevented them from using their bows because the sinew strings become slack when wet, and rendered them virtually defenseless and their shields also became waterlogged and heavy.
These stone heads could be fixed to the spear shaft by gum or resin or by bindings made of animal sinew, leather strips or vegetable matter.
The slider passed through the field frames of the weapon, in which were located the torsion springs (rope made of animal sinew ), which were twisted around the bow arms, which in turn, were attached to the bowstring.
The weapon uses several different bows instead of one bow with a tackle system to achieve a higher acceleration of the sinew via the multiplication with each bow's pulling effect.
They are attached near the nock (rear) end of the arrow with thin double sided tape, glue, or, traditionally, sinew.
Common combinations with sinew
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: