muscle-bound
Britishadjective
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having overdeveloped and inelastic muscles
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lacking flexibility
Example Sentences
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Now, MIT engineers have developed a spring-like device that could be used as a basic skeleton-like module for almost any muscle-bound bot.
From Science Daily • Apr. 8, 2024
The year is 1989, the cultural moment when “American Gladiators” brought muscle-bound women with names like Zap and Lace into people’s homes.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 8, 2024
Every few weeks, my mother and I would drive the 20 minutes from our house to the closet Zayre department store, and I'd pick one $5 muscle-bound figure.
From Salon • Nov. 27, 2022
During her heyday in the late-1980s and early ’90s, Ms. Tenuta was sometimes carried onstage by a bodybuilder or borne aloft in a thronelike chair, raised on the shoulders of several muscle-bound men.
From Washington Post • Oct. 7, 2022
It was as if even eagerness were muscle-bound in him too, and hunger itself inarticulate, not knowing it is hunger.
From "The Sound and the Fury" by William Faulkner
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