muscular
Example Sentences
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They brought books, knitting, thermoses of coffee or something more muscular.
From Los Angeles Times
“If the first movie was contemplation — a boy exploring a new world — and the second one is a war movie, this one is a thriller. It is action-packed and tense. More muscular.”
From Los Angeles Times
His hair was thick and black, and the rolled-back cuffs of his shirt showed his forearms, muscular and tanned.
From Literature
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The BBC's own review noted that there was a disconnect between the "muscular" songs and the "existential crisis" of Styles' lyrics, concluding: "As a portrait of an artist at a crossroads, it's compellingly knotty."
From BBC
"It's purely a muscular sort of discomfort and fatigue. Obviously I'll listen to the professionals. But there's nothing that I can do that's going to harm that."
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.