sinews

Writing Molly’s death and its aftermath, Butler is not afraid of its sinews and gore.

And he argued on commercial grounds that those wanting to stop the slave trade were a threat to "colonial wealth, the sinews of our commercial existence".

Tiger bone is believed to strengthen bones and sinews, provide pain relief and help get rid of wind.

Such phase transitions could give rise to cosmic strings, hypothesized one-dimensional sinews of energy that can warp, snap and break as they undulate through the universe, producing gravitational waves.

The trainers’ comments gnawed at me, fraying the last sinews of my certainty.