How to Use muscled in a Sentence

muscled

adjective
  • The Russian ad shows a muscled guy with a shaved head doing pushups and loading a gun.
    Chris Cillizza, CNN, 21 May 2021
  • Who else would employ massive-muscled work horses to till the soil in the vineyards?
    Liz Thach, Forbes, 20 Dec. 2022
  • The man stands 12 feet tall, eyes closed in what might be pain or transcendence, chains falling off his outstretched arms, scars striped across his muscled back.
    Washington Post, 22 Sep. 2021
  • Suddenly, a snowflake moray eel named Qani heaves its muscled bucatini of a body out of the water and onto the ramp.
    New York Times, 22 June 2021
  • His signature move, when the brawls invariably broke out and the muscled bouncers moved in to break them up, was to sigh, lower his head and drop his microphone.
    Paul Farhi, Washington Post, 28 Apr. 2023
  • Many of these scuffles are involving the game’s most muscled players, which certainly was the case on Sunday night in Detroit.
    Ira Winderman, sun-sentinel.com, 23 Nov. 2021
  • Pumping music, weird purply lights, and large muscled men sort of prowling around, staring at people.
    Lawrence Jackson, Harper's Magazine, 1 Jan. 2022
  • Superman’s muscled arm rests approvingly on the shoulder of a Navy man.
    Samantha Baskind, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Mar. 2022
  • This official ensemble includes a muscled jumpsuit with gauntlets and boot shoe covers and a headpiece; round it out with the hero’s iconic disc.
    Danielle Directo-Meston, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 Oct. 2022
  • At the same time, Peloton coaches are pretty uniformly lean and muscled and beautiful.
    Eren Orbey, The New Yorker, 16 Feb. 2023
  • An Instagram photo of him wearing a sleeveless t-shirt showing his muscled physique and tribal arm tattoo had the ladies doing a double-take.
    Jasmine Grant, Essence, 11 July 2019
  • On the production Evos, the muscled stance and super-thin headlights from the concept look very natural on this higher-riding vehicle.
    Clifford Atiyeh, Car and Driver, 19 Apr. 2021
  • Long relegated to the legs of old or injured folks, too weak-muscled to counter gravity’s forces, the socks have finally pushed their way into widespread use by more vigorous beings.
    Judi Dash, The Denver Post, 2 May 2017
  • Ana Benaroya’s Diamond Day is not a portrait, yet we are invited into this intimate domestic space to admire a female nude’s muscled and curvy beauty.
    Dallas News, 6 May 2022
  • Throughout his year of success selling this routine (as well as cow intestine pills), Johnson has consistently brushed aside accusations that there is something less than natural to his muscled physique.
    Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 30 Nov. 2022
  • When the two are together as Hulks, their differences are made more physically manifest; Jen’s alter ego looks more just like an extremely tall, muscled woman, while Bruce becomes an unfathomably brawny colossus.
    Caroline Framke, Variety, 17 Aug. 2022
  • The Hulk experience, for instance, was relatively simple, with the muscled green man simply appearing at unexpected moments — crashing, The Times reported, a makeup show, or careening through a fake stone wall at other points on the tour.
    Todd Martens, Los Angeles Times, 3 Aug. 2023

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