Example Sentences

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Its stars were gangly and unmuscled, but they could pass as debonair in the right suit, a good coif and a close-up.

From Washington Post • Nov. 20, 2020

Body mass index, which is based only on height and weight and ignores fat, misclassifies some muscular people as obese and some unmuscled people as not obese.

From BusinessWeek • Jan. 13, 2014

She knew how tiny she was too, how unmuscled in the arms; she appreciated, as if in a mirror, that she was amazing.

From "Typical American" by Gish Jen

As the water began to splash over his skinny but unmuscled stomach, he thought of Archimedes.

From "An Abundance of Katherines" by John Green

He had been fain to write down his intents, But the quill dropped from his unmuscled hand.—

From The Dynasts by Hardy, Thomas