muscularity

Example Sentences

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Its orotund prose certainly differs from the lean muscularity of the Second Inaugural or the elegiac concision of the Gettysburg Address.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 7, 2025

Also known as “reverse anorexia” or “bigorexia,” muscle dysmorphia is a pathologic preoccupation with muscularity.

From Salon • Apr. 6, 2025

Ministers want to give off a sense of demonstrable toughness, visible muscularity.

From BBC • Feb. 10, 2025

In works like this, Blake brings together the muscularity of Michelangelo’s drawing, the formal crispness of Raphael, Albrecht Dürer’s commitment to printmaking as a modern form and an almost medieval mysticism that predated Renaissance rationality.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 12, 2023

It would take a long time to cook this rooster, for it had taken him a long time to achieve his size and muscularity.

From "Cannery Row" by John Steinbeck