Example Sentences

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Muscles typically fatigue from the exercise in just one to two minutes.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 12, 2024

Muscles that were warmed immediately — for two hours with moist heat or eight hours with dry heat — experienced less damage and retained more strength than those heated later.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 3, 2024

Muscles are made up of sheathed collections of fibers called fascicles.

From Science Magazine • Sep. 26, 2023

Instead, they created Johnny Cage, the cocky movie star with a strong resemblance to the "Muscles from Brussels", as Van Damme is known.

From BBC • Sep. 19, 2023

Muscles I didn’t know I had are on fire.

From "Keeping Pace" by Laurie Morrison