Example Sentences

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A scroll through the most popular TikTok or YouTube accounts today reveals a landscape dominated by musclemen.

From New York Times • Mar. 5, 2022

I can relate to these crypt-dwellers somehow, chatty and powerless in a world of snarling musclemen.

From The New Yorker • Apr. 29, 2019

It is hard to argue against that, but if you take the movie for what it is – a modernized version of mid-century musclemen silliness – the exercise makes a little more sense.

From The Guardian • Dec. 25, 2016

Last year at the Cannes Film Festival, Sylvester Stallone and his merry band of musclemen were rumbling down the Croisette in tanks to promote their film “The Expendables 3.”

From Washington Times • May 17, 2015

When the Spanish got to Mexico they didn't understand what they saw, being musclemen rather than scholars.

From Adaptation by Schoenherr, John