How to Use muscle in a Sentence

muscle

1 of 2 noun

• She has a strained muscle in her back.
• She doesn't have the muscle to lift something so heavy.
• She started lifting weights to build muscle.
• He pulled a muscle playing tennis.
• The ribs are cut from the backbone under the loin muscle.
  — Southern Living Test Kitchen, Southern Living, 4 Nov. 2023
• Press the barbell head up and away, squeezing your mid-back muscles at the top of the rep.
  — Brett Williams, Men's Health, 31 July 2023
• The 24-year-old righthander has missed most of the season with a muscle strain in his shoulder.
  — Peter Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Sep. 2023
• By the end of my commute, my muscles had started to ache.
  — Dhruv Khullar, The New Yorker, 18 Oct. 2023
• The Bucks once again flexed their defensive muscles, holding the 76ers to a mere 98 points.
  — Brian Sampson, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2024
• Warm up the body by starting with your larger muscle groups first.
  — Nicole Borgenicht, Health, 17 Nov. 2023
• These muscles wouldn’t get as much work on a treadmill or a sidewalk.
  — Katie Hill, Outdoor Life, 5 Oct. 2023
• That’s because holding the weight in front of your chest places extra load on those frontside leg muscles.
  — Jenny McCoy, SELF, 8 Dec. 2023
• Right before a good night’s sleep, a bath for her lower body always does the trick to de-stress her muscles.
  — Jenna Wang, Peoplemag, 20 Jan. 2024
• Just let your muscles recover and forget about the scale.
  — Women's Health, 20 July 2023
• Hard plastic teeth ripped through his muscles, tearing open his forearm down to the bone.
  — Hannah Dreier Meridith Kohut, New York Times, 18 Sep. 2023
• He’s grown a goatee and added muscle to his frame, but still has the same laugh and sincere smile of his adolescence.
  — Hannah Wiley, Los Angeles Times, 10 Nov. 2023
• The nitrates in beets can help boost oxygen circulation to the brain and muscles.
  — Andrea Michelson, Verywell Health, 21 Sep. 2023
• Symptoms of parrot fever include fever and chills, headache, muscle aches and a dry cough, according to the CDC.
  — Erin Clack, Peoplemag, 10 Mar. 2024
• Human pupil size tends to decrease with age, because the muscles that respond to light lose some of their strength over time.
  — Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Dec. 2023
• The spin scrubber has three adjustable speeds plus an extendable rod that performs all of the muscle work for you.
  — Clara McMahon, Peoplemag, 23 Nov. 2023
• This will finish off your biceps workout with a challenge to the muscles through their full range of motion.
  — Cori Ritchey, Men's Health, 8 Sep. 2023
• Before Ann’s stroke, these brain regions sent signals to muscles involved in speech, like those in the larynx, lips and tongue.
  — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Aug. 2023
• Other Ways to Measure Health Tracking your weight, body fat, and muscle mass with a smart scale isn't the only way to measure your health.
  — Theresa Holland, Peoplemag, 25 Oct. 2023
• The weight people lose when taking these drugs comes not only from fat but also from muscle.
  — Lisa Shah, STAT, 28 Mar. 2024
• Pulling has become as much a part of the muscle mainstream as any other exercise.
  — Jeff Tomko, Men's Health, 15 June 2023
• Feel how this positioning intensifies the stretch in your hip flexors, the muscles on the front of your hip.
  — Dana Santas, CNN, 27 Feb. 2024
• Lactic acid is the most gentle of the three because mammals can synthesize it in our muscles.
  — Aaron Hutcherson, Washington Post, 8 Sep. 2023
• Strengthen Your Core Your core muscles stabilize your spine and trunk.
  — Anne Harding, Health, 19 Jan. 2024
• Helps increase strength: A study published in 2021 found that muscles have a circadian rhythm similar to the sleep-wake cycle.
  — Gabrielle Kassel, Health, 14 Apr. 2024
• The patient could have a ruptured tendon or muscle, but that kind of injury would make movement difficult, and the patient had moved her arm easily.
  — Lisa Sanders, M.d., New York Times, 12 Apr. 2024

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muscle

2 of 2 verb

• He muscled through the crowd.
• They muscled the furniture up the stairs.
• They muscled the heavy boxes onto the truck.
• They muscled into line behind us.
• But muscling through is not always the best choice when sick.
  — Dr. Angela N. Baldwin and, ABC News, 29 Feb. 2020
• In the two games the Heat won, Meyers Leonard started and was able to muscle up with Lopez.
  — Ira Winderman, sun-sentinel.com, 31 Aug. 2020
• The Charleston midfielder reacted first and muscled the ball across the goal line to give the home side a 1-0 lead.
  — The Arizona Republic, 11 Mar. 2023
• The yearling is, of course, the BMW Z3 2.8, looking all muscled up now that its rear fenders have been stretched over a wider rear track.
  — Patrick Bedard, Car and Driver, 19 Aug. 2023
• Danzig is shirtless, muscled, tattooed, and crouched in front of a short bookshelf.
  — Amanda Petrusich, The New Yorker, 12 May 2020
• Holtville muscled its way to three straight titles; the Tigers settled for second all three times.
  — Don Norcross, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Feb. 2024
• If this season is up for grabs, then the Tigers got a guy named Seth Williams to reach up and muscle it away from everyone in the back of the end zone.
  — Joseph Goodman | [e-mail], al, 26 Sep. 2020
• With the end of the slavery of the long-term contract, the stars achieved free agency and began to muscle the studios that had kept them on board wages.
  — David Mamet, National Review, 31 Mar. 2022
• Each side of the schism accused the other of trying to muscle their way into power.
  — Jolene Almendarez, The Enquirer, 27 Feb. 2024
• The promotion hopes to position her as the face of its campaign to muscle in on the U.F.C., the dominant player in the sport.
  — New York Times, 30 June 2022
• Aguek Arop muscled his way to a lunch-pail stat line that makes coaches swoon, adding eight points and just as many rebounds. LeDee, though, was the sheer will.
  — Staff and Wire Reports, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Mar. 2023
• In the 55th minute, Claudio Bravo was trying to muscle off Suárez in the box and the referee awarded a penalty.
  — Caitlin Murray, oregonlive, 6 May 2021
• It’s the latest move by the e-commerce giant to muscle into the healthcare market.
  — Laura Blasey, Los Angeles Times, 22 July 2022
• The same goes for Sean, who is trying to muscle his way into running the Wallace empire.
  — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 11 Apr. 2021
• So, the domino effect of trying to muscle through and not seeking out support isn't good.
  — Jessica Dulong, CNN, 18 July 2021
• As someone who’s been muscling their way toward recovery, this was a huge bonus.
  — Aubree Nichols, ELLE, 21 Feb. 2023
• What causes the stubborn low clouds that muscle out the sunshine day after day? To start with, the cloud cover is a function of the season.
  — Paul Duginski, Los Angeles Times, 31 May 2023
• But the combined effects of peak heat of the day coinciding with the afternoon’s low tide were too much for the mussels to muscle through.
  — Shi En Kim, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 July 2021
• Many of them say Democrats should change the Senate's filibuster rules to muscle the bill through, but Manchin and others are against taking that step.
  — Brian Slodysko, Star Tribune, 15 June 2021
• Many of them say Democrats should change the Senate’s filibuster rules to muscle the bill through, but Manchin and others are against taking that step.
  — Brian Slodysko, ajc, 16 June 2021
• But Chaminade’s defense will most likely be too much for the Mighty Dragons to muscle through.
  — Adam Lichtenstein, sun-sentinel.com, 20 Oct. 2021
• But despite some periods of disconnect, the Lions were able to muscle out a crucial point on the road.
  — Julia Poe, orlandosentinel.com, 23 Apr. 2021
• Midway through the quarter Marina’s Barak Simon muscled his way to the basket for a driving layup to tie it 51-51.
  — Steve Fryer, Orange County Register, 14 Feb. 2024
• Confronted with such irresistible numbers, Big Media has spent much of the past year muscling in.
  — Hugh Eakin, Harper's magazine, 19 Jan. 2020
• Three snaps later, Kelce would muscle a shovel pass Mahomes up a crowded middle of the field for a 1-yard touchdown.
  — Jori Epstein, USA TODAY, 25 Jan. 2021
• The one thing Betts didn’t do, however, was send any souvenirs to the outfield pavilions, muscling zero balls over the fence during his 20-minute session.
  — Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 10 July 2023

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024