How to Use sinew in a Sentence

sinew

noun

• The crease between sinew and bone?
  — Literary Hub, 15 Sep. 2025
• The sinews of the conflict have stretched wider in the last year.
  — Kevin Shalvey, ABC News, 7 Oct. 2025
• If hunters land a whale, the tribe says its meat, oil, bone and sinew are all used.
  — Julian Mark, Anchorage Daily News, 30 Sep. 2021
• But still, the sinews of the conflict have stretched wider in the last year.
  — Kevin Shalvey, ABC News, 7 Oct. 2025
• He’s held together with sinew and hope, but the king’s got jokes.
  — Omar L. Gallaga, Washington Post, 10 Oct. 2022
• Remove any bits of fat and peel away as much sinew as possible.
  — Kathleen Squires, WSJ, 16 June 2022
• After cutting a sinew free, peel off or scrape away any meat that can be removed.
  — Tim MacWelch, Outdoor Life, 12 Oct. 2020
• Which is too bad, because there’s a lot of heart, sinew, and energy here.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Mar. 2021
• Along with the sinew and silks, the esteemed hat maker made room for some light-weight, thin gauge wire.
  — Kirby Adams, The Courier-Journal, 1 Apr. 2020
• Cut through the meat tendons and sinews and then press the meat down firmly to form a lollipop.
  — Allie Morris, ExpressNews.com, 6 Mar. 2020
• The singer was a wee man, not even five foot five, all bone and sinew, maybe ninety pounds dressed for winter.
  — Ew Staff, EW.com, 12 May 2021
• There’s not a cement mixer in view, no cranes or pumps or steam shovels, just sinew and sweat.
  — Curbed, 17 Feb. 2022
• This prevents us from using sinew as any form of fishing tackle.
  — Tim MacWelch, Outdoor Life, 12 Oct. 2020
• The twine instead of roots and sinew changed the entire concept of netting.
  — John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 3 July 2022
• Trim any fat cap and sinew off beef and slice into strips, each 1/8-inch to 1/4-inch thick.
  — Sarah Rense, Esquire, 21 Aug. 2017
• White punk vests with cords that evoked alien-like sinews exposed flesh on waif-like male models with visible bones.
  — Thomas Adamson, The Seattle Times, 22 June 2017
• Often that sense of comfort is felt through nerves and sinews tied directly to childhood.
  — Eric Asimov, New York Times, 28 Mar. 2020
• There will be no lunging towards tramlines, or stretching every sinew to serve at speed.
  — Aimee Lewis, CNN, 22 May 2017
• Fresh food in March, if people were lucky, was fish from traps set in ice and grouse and snowshoe hares snared with loops of sinew.
  — Ned Rozell, Anchorage Daily News, 11 Mar. 2018
• The sinew that bound these efforts together was social media.
  — Jessi Hempel, WIRED, 8 July 2018
• Smaller knives are also good for getting around bone or trimming excess fat or sinew from the muscle.
  — goodhousekeeping.com, 28 Apr. 2023
• Crossfitters get awesome sinew and bone, but lots of muscle and joint strain from pushing heavy weights all-out, all the time.
  — Los Angeles Times, 26 Sep. 2019
• Instead, you’ll be presented with massive hunks of meat, fat and sinew, clinging to bones as long as your forearm.
  — Nicholas M. Gallagher, WSJ, 12 Oct. 2017
• Steel makers put sinews of war into the propaganda chest and pronounced it good for business.
  — Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 14 June 2022
• Bridling horses, the flow of water, the sinews of an arm, the leaves of a mulberry tree, compasses, water on the moon.
  — Rachel Donadio, The Atlantic, 1 Dec. 2019
• As the game got scrappier, so the challenges got more rash as players stretched every sinew in an attempt to win back possession.
  — Ben Morse, CNN, 27 June 2021
• Foster, bald and emaciated but all sinew, shows you that for Harry this fighting is a kind of madness.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 14 Sep. 2021
• Farley thinks the sinew tied around Lindow Man’s neck could as easily be a necklace as a garrote.
  — Christian Als, Smithsonian, 2 May 2017
• Farley thinks the sinew tied around Lindow Man’s neck could as easily be a necklace as a garrote.
  — Christian Als, Smithsonian, 29 May 2017
• Ötzi’s bowstring was made of three strands of animal sinew twisted into a cord, according to the new analysis.
  — Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Jan. 2020