Example sentences for: sinewy

How can you use “sinewy” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Alfre Woodard displays "sinewy intelligence and grace" (John Leonard, New York ) and "unfailing dignity" (John O'Connor, the New York Times ) in the role of a black nurse who recruits black men for a government research project about syphilis.

  • You see winged nymphs and angels, arrow-bearing cupids, fabulously sensual and muscular naked women and men, enslaved Titans bearing the weight of entire lofty buildings on their sinewy backs, bearded philosophers, heroic Communist proletarians, and famous statesmen.

  • Two of the three stories in this volume concern the midlife crises of womanizers and all three are deemed mediocre knockoffs of Ford's earlier work, littered with characters "not complex enough to hold one's interest" (Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, the New York Times ). Some, however, appreciate Ford's continued explorations of "contemporary manhood and its discontents" (Dan Cryer, Newsday ) and his "sinewy" prose, reminiscent of Twain and Hemingway (Michael Gorra, the New York Times Book Review ). "Nobody now writing looks ...

  • The tropical seaside town is surrounded by green hillsides covered with cocoa and coconut groves, and all around are palm-backed beaches and delightful, sinewy rivers.


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