What's the difference between brawny and sinewy?

Brawny


Definition:

  • (a.) Having large, strong muscles; muscular; fleshy; strong.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The case of an 8.5-year-old girl is reported, in which an oral infection and a clinically observed motility resulted in a communication with the submandibular space; a significant hard, brawny edema of her right submandibular area resulted.
  • (2) A preserved normal choroidal vascular pattern over an elevated subretinal mass may be indicative of posterior brawny scleritis.
  • (3) In contrast to what happens after DEC, it was not accompanied by any marked wave of microfilaraemia or microfilaruria, nor by the appearance of a papular rash, although brawny oedema of the skin sometimes developed.
  • (4) We therefore emphasized clinical symptoms and signs of brawny scleritis: inflammation, tenderness or pain of the globe, history of collagen vascular disease, proptosis, bilaterality, and retinal and choroidal detachment.
  • (5) Those clever flicks that manage to look brawny and balletic all at once.
  • (6) Five cases are presented of hard, brawny, edema of the dorsum of the hand.
  • (7) Once brawny edema and hyperpigmentation occur, ulceration develops without additional deterioration of venous hemodynamics.
  • (8) A chronic brawny edema developed in the shoulder and arm ipsilateral to the site of a previous mastectomy in a 68-year-old woman.
  • (9) Television host and opposition activist Ksenia Sobchak compared him to Batman for his reputation of fighting evildoers and called him a "strong Russian guy" in reference to his brawny physique and homespun charm.
  • (10) He could drift effortlessly between Mad Man and Brawny Man; he lived his entire life on the same Central Valley farm our family has owned since the Gold Rush of 1848.
  • (11) The physical examination is often nondiagnostic, but may include brawny edema of the neck and chest.
  • (12) This experience and other previous reports indicate the high incidence of diagnostic confusion regarding brawny scleritis.
  • (13) A 1-year-old immunodeficient boy developed brawny edema of the left foot.
  • (14) Characteristic symptoms are a brawny swelling of the lids, marked chemosis, coffee-coloured discharge, hypopyon, ring abscess of the cornea, formation of gas bubbles in the anterior chamber, rise of intraocular tension and early amaurosis.
  • (15) However, once extremities develop brawny edema or hyperpigmentation, further deterioration of limb hemodynamics does not occur.
  • (16) We studied four patients with posterior brawny scleritis.
  • (17) Brawny oedema of the right upper quadrant of the body developed rapidly after the duct ligation and right pleurectomy.
  • (18) The word he eventually settles on is "moody", but I'd offer "melancholy", not an emotion that the Black Keys' rootsy, brawny grooves previously gave much credence to.
  • (19) Life-long episodic brawny and non-itchy swelling of the extremities, face and trunk, with episodic abdominal pain and familial occurrence are the typical features.
  • (20) However, cutaneous reactions were relatively less frequent while brawny oedema of the limbs and inguinal gland pain were important.

Sinewy


Definition:

  • (a.) Pertaining to, consisting of, or resembling, a sinew or sinews.
  • (a.) Well braced with, or as if with, sinews; nervous; vigorous; strong; firm; tough; as, the sinewy Ajax.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This situation was exacerbated by the uniquely sinewy physique she says she inherited from her grandfather.
  • (2) In slim black jeans, motorcycle boots and a T-shirt darkened with sweat from the soundcheck he has just come from, he is anything but rotund – in fact he is lean and sinewy.
  • (3) It's all there: the glassy black eyes of your typical Roswellian extraterrestrial, big reptilian dragon claws, fat old sinewy Jabba-the-guts – the whole shebang.
  • (4) Things took a turn for the ridiculous from the beginning: while the traditional format of the show pairs one man and one woman together for the 21-day challenge, Rogen and Franco were both disappointed to learn that they were not going to spend the better part of a month traipsing through the woods with a naked, sinewy female companion but rather one another.
  • (5) It’s heavy work but we’re used to it.” Older than his sinewy companions, Gomez says he will earn around $825 for spending four months logging in a camp two days up the Mayuruna river from his home village.
  • (6) At the same time, he largely dispensed with his breathless, gossamer sentences, which often teetered on the brink of preciousness and whimsy, and ushered in a style that was much leaner and more sinewy: "Dick!
  • (7) But even Kilbourne will tell you: “The extremity of it catches our attention, but this is really not new.” In fact, it’s becoming more of a trend: expect the impossibly slim, the white and the sinewy to dominate chic windows.
  • (8) He manoeuvres the other with surprising ease: he's a small but compact man, around 5ft 7in, sinewy, with a light mahogany tan; and although there is some grey amid the glossy black curls, it's very easy to forget that he is 70.
  • (9) The inevitable quote came from Don Pettit, the Nasa astronaut charged with capturing the SpaceX Dragon capsule as it floated alongside, with the Space Station's sinewy, articulated robot arm.
  • (10) Elias was slight yet sinewy, with fingers like sausages.
  • (11) Up close, almost cheek to cheek, he is handsome, sinewy, and a little rodent-like: his shaggy, sandy-coloured hair is threaded with grey, and there is blond in his eyelashes and eyebrows.
  • (12) 's closure is not related to the triumph of feminism – any high-end glossy features far more etiolated women, and the Daily Mail's juggernaut "sidebar of shame" is proof that young women will always click on pictures of sinewy celebrities in bikinis, hoping for diet tips.
  • (13) "Coming up after the break, we'll be slicing my belly open and watching while smooth black eels loll out in a sinewy cascade of demented horror."

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