How to Use voluntary muscle in a Sentence

voluntary muscle

noun

• In normal REM sleep, the brain shuts down voluntary muscle movement, to keep the dreamer from acting out the dream.
  — Linda Rodriguez McRobbie, BostonGlobe.com, 23 Mar. 2018
• When these cells die, voluntary muscle control and movement dies with them.
  — Jennie Key, Cincinnati.com, 2 Feb. 2018
• Which of the following is also known as voluntary muscle?
  — Scott Lafee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Jan. 2023
• This leads to a loss of control of voluntary muscle movements, including speech and breathing.
  — Julie Jag, The Salt Lake Tribune, 5 May 2022
• By that time, the patient had zero voluntary muscle control.
  — Meghana Keshavan, STAT, 25 Mar. 2022
• A year later, he was diagnosed with ALS, a rare incurable disease that damages the nerves that control voluntary muscle movement.
  — Josh Katzenstein, NOLA.com, 1 Nov. 2017
• The 37-year-old was diagnosed at age 2 with a genetic disease that, among other things, affects the central nervous system and voluntary muscle movement.
  — NBC News, 9 Oct. 2020
• One striking thing is that two of the subjects actually regained the ability to exert a bit of voluntary muscle control in their formerly paralyzed limbs.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 8 Feb. 2022
• The neurodegenerative disease slowly puts the nerves that work to trigger voluntary muscle movement out of working order.
  — Nina Godlewski, Newsweek, 14 Mar. 2018
• Jayden suffers from spinal muscular atrophy, a genetic disease that affects the part of the nervous system that controls voluntary muscle movement.
  — Mari A. Schaefer, Philly.com, 16 May 2018
• Kevan was born with something called spinal muscular atrophy (SMA), a genetic disease affecting the part of the nervous system that controls voluntary muscle movement.
  — Shari Puterman, USA TODAY, 1 June 2018
• His disease, formally known as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, attacks nerve cells in the brain and progressively takes away the patient's control of voluntary muscles -- the brain itself isn't affected.
  — Michelle Fay Cortez, chicagotribune.com, 6 Oct. 2017
• His disease, formally known as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, attacks nerve cells in the brain and progressively takes away the patient’s control of voluntary muscles -- the brain itself isn’t affected.
  — Michelle Cortez, Bloomberg.com, 5 Oct. 2017
• Chewing, walking, and talking are common examples of voluntary muscle movements.
  — Elizabeth Ayoola, Essence, 15 Nov. 2022
• As the world would come to know, Hawking suffered from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, a disease that ravages the neurons controlling voluntary muscle movement, but leaves cognitive functioning intact.
  — Brian Greene, Time, 15 Mar. 2018
• As these neurons die, people progressively lose control of their voluntary muscles, ultimately leading to uncontrolled tremors.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 2 Sep. 2017
• Imagining on purpose The difference between voluntary imagination and involuntary imagination is analogous to the difference between voluntary muscle control and muscle spasm.
  — Andrey Vyshedskiy, The Conversation, 23 Feb. 2023

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024