Sinew is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.
You can make 50 anagrams from letters in sinew (einsw).
before 900; Middle English; Old English sinu (nominative), sinuwe (genitive); cognate with Dutch zenuw, German Sehne, Old Norse sin; akin to Sanskrit snāva sinew
The merchants, mechanics, and farmers, who constitute the bone and sinew of India.
The butcher sawed excruciatingly slowly through bone and sinew.
He was small of person, but every sinew in his wiry frame was of steel.
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.
The doctrine of Laissez-Faire is the sinew of her policy toward the European states.
The bone and sinew is in Africa—we wish to give it direction.
But I personally started to feel disrespected, that that caused me—because of my heart, my sinew—to overreact.
Then they threaded the sinew through the holes in an “over-and-over seam.”
Small as the old man was, he was all sinew and muscle; his clutch was like that of a vice.