atrophied

Example Sentences

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“It’s like a muscle that maybe has atrophied a little bit over the years,” Gould said in his interview with the Journal.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 17, 2026

The pandemic, for all its lessons, quietly atrophied some of our neighboring muscles, and many of us are still figuring out how to use them again.

From Salon • Jan. 19, 2026

“Although his boss had to pretend to embrace the family-friendly nature of the town whose newspaper he ran,” Roman observes, “privately he was a man with a heart as atrophied as his calf muscles.”

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 18, 2024

Social skills and conversational ease have stiffened and atrophied.

From New York Times • May 14, 2024

They were loose because his legs had atrophied beyond normal clothing size—you could get two hands around his thighs and have your fingers touch.

From "Tuesdays with Morrie" by Mitch Albom