muscle in
Example Sentences
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DiBella’s overseas priorities aren’t new to the FMC—the regulator over the past year has increasingly pivoted toward global maritime risks—but her focus indicates that the agency will increasingly flex its muscle in the area of geopolitics.
"Following tests carried out today on our player Jude Bellingham by Real Madrid's medical services, he has been diagnosed with an injury to the semitendinosus muscle in his left leg," said Los Blancos in a statement, without specifying the length of his expected absence.
From Barron's
Two years earlier, he also triumphed despite tearing an abdominal muscle in the third round.
From BBC
Every time a person got close, he held his breath and stiffened every muscle in his body.
From Literature
By the time he came back, every muscle in Coal’s body was tight and stiff.
From Literature
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
