MUSCLE in a Sentence

Learn MUSCLE from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
125 example sentences for MUSCLE, such as:
1. The disease robs you of muscle control.
2. Adrenalin was injected into the muscle.
3. The muscle fibre of this animal is diseased.
4. The muscle fiber of this animal is diseased.
5. These exercises build muscle and increase stamina.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of MUSCLE
muscle
 n.  authority or power or force (especially when used in a coercive way)
 n.  animal tissue consisting predominantly of contractile cells
Classic Sentence: (88 in 6 pages)
1  Besides, for some way, where I now saw but a naked spine, all that had been once wrapped round with tons of added bulk in flesh, muscle, blood, and bowels.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 103. Measurement of The Whale's Skeleton.
2  It's a partnership; he supplies the muscle part.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 108. Ahab and the Carpenter.
3  His person, though muscular, was rather attenuated than full; but every nerve and muscle appeared strung and indurated by unremitted exposure and toil.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 3
4  The expression of his eye contradicted his figurative and boastful language, while every muscle in his wrinkled visage was working with anguish.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 24
5  His look never changed throughout the whole of the scene, nor did a muscle move in his rigid countenance, even at the wildest or the most pathetic parts of the lamentation.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 33
6  Then, as if the heads were moved by one muscle, all the faces were turned toward him with wide, derisive grins.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 11
7  His eyesight was shaken and dazzled by the tension of thought and muscle.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 23
8  But the latter did not stir a muscle; he was a man of the old stamp, and did not share the modern views of the younger generation.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
9  The bone's not touched,' he muttered through his teeth; 'the ball didn't go deep; one muscle, vastus externus, grazed.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
10  Every muscle of his thin face was now quivering with nervous excitement; his eyes, in which the fire of life had seemed extinguished, now flashed with brilliant light.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VIII
11  Neither the hand nor a single muscle of the count's face stirred.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XXIII
12  Every muscle of Telyanin's pale, terrified face began to quiver, his eyes still shifted from side to side but with a downward look not rising to Rostov's face, and his sobs were audible.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER IV
13  Natasha without knowing it was all attention: she did not lose a word, no single quiver in Pierre's voice, no look, no twitch of a muscle in his face, nor a single gesture.
War and Peace 5 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 15: CHAPTER XVII
14  He was rather thin with living on moor grass but he was as tough and wiry as if the muscle in his little legs had been made of steel springs.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
15  Dickon stood up on the grass and slowly went through a carefully practical but simple series of muscle exercises.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
Example Sentence: (37 in 3 pages)
1  The muscle fibre of this animal is diseased.
2  The muscle fiber of this animal is diseased.
3  Surprise Physical muscle is not the only weapon in your armoury.
4  These exercises build muscle and increase stamina.
5  The disease robs you of muscle control.
6  Adrenalin was injected into the muscle.
7  This magazine has considerable financial muscle and can afford to pay top journalists.
8  The real question now is whether the AU will have the muscle to put this into practice.
9  I have no muscle left in my leg; it's like a true cripple leg.
10  This is not fat, it is a massive hunk of shoulder muscle that lets the wolf break animals' spines with a swipe.
11  The signs of dehydration include muscle pain and fatigue.
12  Building up muscle mass is going to cause you to burn more calories and increase your metabolic rate.
13  The regulator is understood to be looking at whether the display advertiser is being used to muscle clients into buying adverts on other Google advertising properties.
14  Tightness in one set of muscles will affect your whole balance.
15  In breathing the chest muscles expand the rib cage and allow air to be sucked into the lungs.