| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.i.59 | Worthy fellows, and like to prove most sinewy | Worthy fellowes, and like to prooue most sinewie |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.xiii.177 | I will be treble-sinewed, hearted, breathed, | I will be trebble-sinewed, hearted, breath'd, |
| As You Like It | AYL II.ii.14 | That did but lately foil the sinewy Charles, | That did but lately foile the synowie Charles, |
| Coriolanus | Cor V.vi.45 | For which my sinews shall be stretched upon him. | For which my sinewes shall be stretcht vpon him, |
| Hamlet | Ham I.v.94 | And you, my sinews, grow not instant old, | And you my sinnewes, grow not instant Old; |
| Hamlet | Ham III.iii.71 | Be soft as sinews of the new-born babe! | Be soft as sinewes of the new-borne Babe, |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.vii.10 | Which may to you perhaps seem much unsinewed, | Which may to you (perhaps) seeme much vnsinnowed, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 IV.iv.17 | Who with them was a rated sinew too, | Who with them was rated firmely too, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.i.170 | That are ensinewed to this action | That are insinewed to this Action, |
| Henry V | H5 I.ii.224 | And yours, the noble sinews of our power, | And yours, the noble sinewes of our power, |
| Henry V | H5 II.ii.36 | So service shall with steeled sinews toil, | So seruice shall with steeled sinewes toyle, |
| Henry V | H5 III.i.7 | Stiffen the sinews, conjure up the blood, | Stiffen the sinewes, commune vp the blood, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.iii.62 | These are his substance, sinews, arms, and strength, | These are his substance, sinewes, armes, and strength, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 III.i.195 | Till bones and flesh and sinews fall away, | Till bones and flesh and sinewes fall away, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.iii.4 | Have robbed my strong-knit sinews of their strength, | Haue robb'd my strong knit sinewes of their strength, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.vi.91 | So shalt thou sinew both these lands together; | So shalt thou sinow both these Lands together, |
| Julius Caesar | JC I.ii.108 | With lusty sinews, throwing it aside | With lusty Sinewes, throwing it aside, |
| King John | KJ V.ii.63 | That knit your sinews to the strength of mine. | That knit your sinewes to the strength of mine. |
| King John | KJ V.vii.88 | Ourselves well sinewed to our defence. | Our selues well sinew'd to our defence. |
| King Lear | KL III.vi.96 | This rest might yet have balmed thy broken sinews | |
| Measure for Measure | MM III.i.223 | and sinew of her fortune, her marriage dowry; with | and sinew of her fortune, her marriage dowry: with |
| The Tempest | Tem III.i.26 | I had rather crack my sinews, break my back, | I had rather cracke my sinewes, breake my backe, |
| The Tempest | Tem IV.i.260 | With dry convulsions, shorten up their sinews | With dry Convultions, shorten vp their sinewes |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.iii.136 | Not her own sinews. To end a tale of length, | Not her owne sinewes. To end a tale of length, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.iii.143 | The sinew and the forehand of our host, | The sinew, and the fore-hand of our Hoste, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC II.i.99 | your sinews, or else there be liars. Hector shall have a | your sinnewes, or else there be Liars. Hector shall haue a |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC II.iii.245 | To sinewy Ajax. I will not praise thy wisdom, | To sinnowie Aiax: I will not praise thy wisdome, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.i.150 | Or force of Greekish sinews. You shall do more | Or force of Greekish sinewes: you shall doe more |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.iii.304 | Apollo get his sinews to make catlings on. | Apollo get his sinewes to make catlings on. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.v.126 | And this is Trojan; the sinews of this leg | And this is Troian: the sinewes of this Legge, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.iii.33 | Let grow thy sinews till their knots be strong, | Let grow thy Sinews till their knots be strong; |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.viii.12 | Here lies thy heart, thy sinews, and thy bone. – | Here lyes thy heart, thy sinewes, and thy bone. |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.v.75 | Nay, patience, or we break the sinews of our plot. | Nay patience, or we breake the sinewes of our plot? |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG III.ii.78 | For Orpheus' lute was strung with poets' sinews, | For Orpheus Lute, was strung with Poets sinewes, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.i.69 | And swore his sinews thawed. O grief and time, | And swore his sinews thawd: O greife, and time, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK II.iv.2 | Since Hercules, a man of tougher sinews. | Since Hercules, a man of tougher synewes; |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK IV.ii.127 | Lined with strong sinews; to the shoulder-piece | Linde with strong sinewes: To the shoulder peece, |