How to Use muscle memory in a Sentence

muscle memory

noun

• And so the goal here is to teach this team that muscle memory.
  — Ian Parker, The New Yorker, 7 Aug. 2023
• The kids lose muscle memory, and it is bound to affect you.
  — Ben Thomas | [e-mail], al, 1 Oct. 2020
• They were meant to emerge from this with the pivotal episodes of the Book of Mormon lodged in their muscle memory.
  — Andrew Kay, Longreads, 17 July 2021
• The Astros, though, have more muscle memory of winning on which to fall back than the Mets do.
  — Mike Lupica, New York Daily News, 29 June 2024
• Dancers build muscle memory from the day-in, day-out study of technique.
  — Longreads, 25 May 2021
• My legs didn’t have the muscle memory to keep doing it.
  — Ben Shpigel, New York Times, 20 Aug. 2021
• Once the ball is kicked off and the quarterbacks take their first snaps, muscle memory takes over.
  — Los Angeles Times, 12 Feb. 2022
• If things go south for the Spartans early on in the game, there isn’t much muscle memory for them to flex for a comeback.
  — Kirk Kenney, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Nov. 2020
• The time on task has helped Newsome learn the scheme, and commit his new technique to muscle memory.
  — cleveland, 25 Aug. 2021
• Coaches spent the first few days on skills and drills, just to refresh the players’ muscle memory.
  — Ryan Kartje, Los Angeles Times, 11 Jan. 2022
• Over time, Boggs' muscle memory could turn out one of these chairs in 10 hours flat.
  — TheWeek, 20 Sep. 2020
• And yet when Biden gets into the weeds on policy, a sort of muscle memory kicks in.
  — Time, 30 Jan. 2020
• Bruce Cassidy walked out of the tunnel at TD Garden and stood on the home bench, and not because of muscle memory.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Dec. 2022
• It’s all muscle memory at this point, and you’ll be tempted to lift the finger after the second tap.
  — Chris Smith, BGR, 3 Feb. 2022
• In both spaces, the group of about two dozen fourth-graders moved through their classroom routine as if it was born of muscle memory.
  — oregonlive, 3 Apr. 2021
• There’s more lines than there were, and there’s a lot of muscle memory that needs to be back in place for a lot of people across the service industry.
  — Zach Wichter, USA TODAY, 29 June 2022
• But taking those tweaks from the practice court to the game -- and creating new muscle memory -- isn’t easy.
  — Chris Fedor, cleveland, 22 Nov. 2021
• It should be noted that the league race is far from over, no matter what logic and muscle memory tell us.
  — Sam Mellinger, kansascity, 16 Jan. 2018
• Gaza should shock Washington out of the muscle memory that guides too many of its actions.
  — Ben Rhodes, Foreign Affairs, 18 June 2024
• Turns out, my muscle memory for this game is nearly shot.
  — Wired Staff, Wired, 24 Mar. 2020
• Got back here and continued to do even more snaps and just trying to get that muscle memory and all that good stuff going.
  — Mark Inabinett | [e-mail], al, 18 June 2021
• What the Cardinals don’t have is the muscle memory that comes from playing well in the second half of a season and into the playoffs.
  — Kent Somers, The Arizona Republic, 13 Nov. 2021
• Arm swings make a great drill for teaching technique and muscle memory.
  — Jeff Tomko, Men's Health, 2 Mar. 2023
• For most of them, including five members of the original cast, the process would amount to a jogging of muscle memory.
  — Washington Post, 16 Sep. 2021
• Pitchfork devotees can work from muscle memory: like last year, gates will open at noon sharp each day.
  — Nicole Blackwood, chicagotribune.com, 16 July 2019
• The idea was to make the act of pulling the trigger more automatic, to condition muscle memory.
  — Alex Kingsbury, BostonGlobe.com, 23 Feb. 2018
• But fans seemed to be waiting for their October muscle memory to click in.
  — Ann Killion, San Francisco Chronicle, 8 Oct. 2021
• In this situation a lot of it comes down to muscle memory.
  — Matt Scuffham, Anchorage Daily News, 24 Apr. 2018
• There are a lot of hard falls, a lot of bruises and scrapes, a lot of time spent alone, repeating mistakes and fine-tuning muscle memory.
  — Gregory Thomas, San Francisco Chronicle, 11 Mar. 2020
• Most of her mother’s instincts were still there; muscle memory compensated for some of the damage.
  — Nell Freudenberger, The New Yorker, 28 July 2024

Last Updated: 14 Dec 2024