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Sentence Examples Noticing that there was little meat on the sucker and heeding the cook's warning that the sinew was pretty tough, I passed. Ecclesiastical organisation has become the sinew and muscle of the Republican party. Tough sinew was made from their tendons for stitching the heavy hides together. Several of the arrows still retained sinew ties in association with fletching or hafting of the antler arrow points, or both. The nock is secured with sinew and both nock and fletching are held on with fish air-bladder glue. The clothing is made from white caribou hides and sewn with sinew, using split bird quills on the seams. I felt every muscle tighten, all of my sinew, like a ballet dancer after she dances, every inch aching and tingling at once. The Nunamiut kayaks are covered with caribou skins, which are sewn with sinew and babiche and sealed with tallow. The sight of death and destruction, the gore, the exposed sinew and bone, the open skulls and slaughtered children does not bother me. Flint arrowheads were shaped to a point and inserted into a slot and tied with sinew to the front of the arrow. In Fat of the Lamb, white fat winds around viscous sinew and muscle as if in emulation of the frame's sinuous acanthus motif. Suddenly uncoiling, he plunged his arm into it, his 225 pounds of muscle and sinew straining as he groped for something within. A track for tough cars and tough drivers, it tests every component and every sinew to the limit and few pass with flying colours. A kinship system based on matrilineal clans was the source of Cherokee identity and the sinew of society. When someone killed a moose, she would cut out the sinew and hang it to dry, when it drys she splits it into strands. Students and fledgling writers are constantly warned away from adjectives and told to give their writing strength and sinew with judiciously chosen nouns and verbs. The North Slavey inhabited mountainous areas of the Northwest Territories and hunted mainly caribou and buffalo, using bow and arrows, spears, clubs, snares and twisted sinew. When she came to, her body was numb from the shock of the lightning bolt and although she hadn't received a direct hit, every nerve and sinew tingled like a spectacular case of pins and needles. He had followed the instincts of the wilderness which bred him, straining every nerve and sinew, exhausting every subtlety and artifice to survive. Pain tortured every nerve and sinew in his body, and there were times of terrible collapse, when he was conscious of nothing save an intense longing to sink into the grave. Show More Sentences He lingered over his ale and bread, wishing with every half-asleep nerve and sinew that it was a cup of strong, black coffee and a flaky warm croissant. Abroad we do battle with the world, and it is there we strain every nerve and sinew that we may stem a sea of troubles, and may not be carried away by the stream. The trend has been for the bone and sinew of the Canadian francophonie to regain strength, as one of my colleagues pointed out earlier. This tournament appeals to the gamesman that stalks my every sinew and, I'm sure, it will take me to new levels of literary joy. These short boots, probably for a girl, are made of depilated sealskin and sewn with sinew. Today, perspiration triumphed over inspiration, style over sinew, brawn over brain, athletics over aesthetics, attrition over attraction and haymakers over playmakers. Caribou, seal and marine birds were the main sources of material for the lightweight clothing which was sewn with sinew. Since it will be used to make rawhide sinew for snowshoes, parts of the hide are chosen to suit different sections of the snowshoe. These boots are made of lightweight caribou hide and bearskin, fur to the outside, and are sewn with sinew. This is a small hide pouch constructed of four separate pieces, and sewn with sinew and also cotton or linen thread. Obviously the entire snowshoe can't be laced with a single length of sinew. Once the pieces of hide are frozen solid, we cut them into strips to make sinew. The bag and its lid are made up of narrow, folded strips of tanned, dehaired and coiled sealskin stitched with sinew. There is no meat, there is no muscle, there is no sinew on the bones of the words that are on that piece of paper. In the future, as in the past, we shall continue to strain every sinew to meet the needs of our customers, our investors and our people. Second, Skins and furs were used to make clothing while sinew was used in lieu of nails and porcupine quills to make snowshoes. Skirt sinew may be the yellow elastic or white fibrous connective tissue when removed from skirt meat. This is a pair of snow goggles, carved from a single piece of wood and attached with a string made of braided sinew. The ligaments of the caribou become sinew which is a natural thread to sew things. Skirt sinew consists of the connective tissue which attaches the diaphragm muscle to the inside of the abdominal cavity. Show More Sentences If this is so it is quite possible they are mercenary bowmen from eastern Europe, and these archers are known to have used horn and sinew shortbows. Wanderers didn't strain every sinew and summon every ounce of effort to gain promotion just to spend a season in the Premiership playing for sympathy. There are layers of nerve and sinew and flesh that beg to be dissected and laid bare, not because such scrutiny improves the story but because it helps advance the cause of truth. He did it very slowly, as if he had to concentrate on untangling every nerve and sinew in its proper order, neither over-flexing nor under-flexing. Edouard Collin is a tall wisp of a French teenager, all well-tanned Parisian sinew with a sharp-angled, warmly expressive face born to be placed in front of a camera. The sewing kit also contained sinew, tendon not yet made into sinew and pieces of fur for repair. The butcher sawed excruciatingly slowly through bone and sinew. George Osborne strained every sinew to demonstrate both that there would be no complacency in his approach, and that his plan must be allowed to continue. Till then, our industry should bend every sinew to keep govenments at bay, for a simple reason summed up by H. L. Mencken in fewer than ten words. These pantaloons with the fur to the outside are made of lightweight, glossy, deep brown caribou fur harvested at the end of summer and sewn with sinew. Collagen: skin, hide, Garments, sinew cordage, bags, drumskins, Many dermestids, commonly Anthrenus and and parchment glue joints, and book bindings. Most of the muscle, tissue and sinew had been torn off his lower leg. Armed with wooden harpoons tipped with mussel shell blades, lines made of whale or seal sinew, and floats made of sealskin, these hardy people launched their small dugout canoes in search of passing humpback or gray whales. Guts, sinew, spleen, backbone, heart: frankly, given their depleted physique it is a miracle England's players can even drag themselves off the team bus. The recurved bow design originated in antiquity when the longbow, or selfbow, made entirely from wood, was reinforced with animal sinew. The rain prevented them from using their bows because the sinew strings become slack when wet, and rendered them virtually defenseless. As for Monza, he said, the Ferrari team would have to rise to requite the passions it arouses, in Italy and around the world, and strain every sinew to help Alonso finish ahead of Vettel. His head snapped around to see grey fur moving fast, and the dog in pursuit, the end to which sinew and nerve and tissue had always been building. The second blow severed the neck, except for a small bit of sinew, which the executioner cut through using the axe. While we will strain every sinew in working on this, I would also ask this House to continue supporting us as we go forward, for I can tell you that we need all the help we can get. Show More Sentences The bow allowed the prehistoric human to become the most efficient hunter on Earth, providing him safety, food and raw materials such as bone, sinew and hide. Those blackguards have no more respect for an entrail, or a sinew, or a vital organ, than if they were gutting dog-fish. The harpoon is made from wood and ivory, the avataq from hide and sinew. The first form of sewing was probably tying together animal skins using thorns and sharpened rocks as needles, with animal sinew or plant material as thread. Inuit made clothes and footwear from animal skins, sewn together using needles made from animal bones and threads made from other animal products, such as sinew. Examples from Classical Literature Where the weight of the foot would rest he used a fine mesh of babiche or twisted sinew. It was a mucluc of the Innuit pattern, sewed together with sinew threads, and devoid of beads or furbelows. The natives of Patagonia make up many robes of the guanaco and vicuna, dressing the skins and sewing them together with sinew. Every muscle and sinew in me was wracked, while I stood in a driving wind and freezing rain. You are a man of sinew yourself, monk, and methinks that you would have made a better soldier than a shaveling. The doctrine of Laissez-Faire is the sinew of her policy toward the European states. The merchants, mechanics, and farmers, who constitute the bone and sinew of India. The climber here tastes the full enjoyment of an encounter with untamed nature, which calls every thew and sinew into action. They are untough, uncritical, unmaterial works with no real sinew or engagement. Little art thou indeed, and small of bone and sinew, therefore shalt thou be christened Little John, and I will be thy godfather. As soon as his right arm received thew and sinew he learned to draw the long bow and speed a true arrow. I strained a sinew on the day that I slew the three men at Castelnau. Excitement is the backbone and muscle and sinew of our beings. They range from a size 26 to a size 12 which is fine in real life but still too hefty for the ballet world which is all sinew and gristle. The sinew and heart of man seem to be drawn out, and we are become timorous, desponding whimperers. He was small of person, but every sinew in his wiry frame was of steel. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of sinew? Words that rhyme with sinew What is the past tense of sinew? What is the plural of sinew? What is the adjective for sinew? What is the noun for sinew? Translations for sinew Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words sines sine qua non sine die sinecures sinecure Sinead sinewed sinewless sinews sinewy sinfonia sinfonietta 5-letter Words Starting With s si sin sine