I.nounCOLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a blood/nerve/brain/muscle etc cell
▪ No new brain cells are produced after birth.
couldn’t move a muscle (=could not move at all)
▪ Paul couldn’t move a muscle he was so scared.
develop muscle
▪ exercises to develop muscle strength
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
abdominal
▪ This week she has devised the Oblique Crunch, to strengthen abdominal muscles.
▪ At the same time, middle linebacker Robert Jones was out because of a strained abdominal muscle.
▪ Your oblique abdominal muscle will contract as rib cage rotates.
▪ Some young people will slouch through habit or because they have weak back or abdominal muscles.
▪ Linebacker Gary Plummer and tight end Greg Clark are both nursing sore lower abdominal muscles.
▪ This exercise tones the outer thighs as well as the lower abdominal muscles.
▪ Middle linebacker Robert Jones missed the final three games with a strained abdominal muscle.
big
▪ Suppose a blacksmith does develop big muscles.
▪ Big father of the big muscles and the boom, boom, boom.
▪ Fighters need lots of things but not big muscles - one look at any of the lighter boxing greats tells us that.
▪ The heart beats thick, Big trout muscle out of the dead cold.
▪ Male speaker He's brilliant, big muscles and hard.
▪ If you've got bigger muscles and the will to use them, the others have to go along with you.
▪ She wrapped herself around him like a clam in formation, her body one big muscle, straining.
▪ And for bigger muscles, he needs to add a circulatory system that pumps the glucose to the muscles.
economic
▪ At least in Baja California, real estate should remain a prime factor in building new economic muscle.
▪ But by this time the North had begun to flex its superior economic muscles.
facial
▪ It's designed to gently exercise the small, delicate facial muscles to help prevent wrinkles and sagging.
▪ Those of you who move your lips when you read may take a 30-second break to rest your facial muscles.
▪ His thin body was rigid and they could see the contortions of his facial muscles beneath the skin.
▪ Watch for asymmetry of eyelid blinking or evidence of lower facial muscle weakness.
▪ It involved 14 groups of facial muscles and it releases chemicals to the brain that help combat depression.
▪ This is very important for facial muscles.
▪ Are there any exercises I can do to tighten up facial skin and muscles?
financial
▪ The deposits are, in the main, so marginal that large companies with financial muscle are required to exploit them.
▪ Mr Fineman says that Darden has the financial muscle to hurt its competitors -- if the company ever gets moving.
▪ We also have the commitment and financial muscle to back our judgement with our own resources.
▪ The initiative is seen as the start of a wider move by other charities to use their financial muscle on ethical issues.
▪ The new group will use its enhanced financial muscle to mount takeovers and become increasingly dominant on the global stage.
hard
▪ He was only small but he was wiry, with hard, knotty muscles.
▪ He looked to be all hard muscle.
▪ I pushed against its hard muscles, the nerves twitched under the smooth coat.
▪ His face was smooth as a bowling ball, the skin tight and bright, masking hard inner muscle.
▪ Katherine felt skin, hot, hard muscle.
▪ This is potentially significant for athletes because they are exercising so hard that their muscles readily burn the liberated fatty acids.
▪ The Kittyhawk's controls usually responded to a nudge or a twitch; now they demanded a heavy boot and hard muscle.
political
▪ But they will just as surely have died because they were too weak in political muscle to be able to fight back.
▪ And it says something about the amount of political muscle the Chamber has, too.
▪ Big operators have the political muscle to win development permits.
▪ Second, when they are raised, they are resolved according to the simple criterion of political muscle power.
▪ He began to flex his political muscles.
skeletal
▪ The inflammatory process was seen to extend into adjacent skeletal muscle and was consistent with a diagnosis of Riedel's thyroiditis.
▪ Consideration is given first to the anatomic arrangement of the nervous and skeletal muscle systems involved in this activity.
▪ Finally, we determined the activities of the respiratory chain enzymes in skeletal muscle.
▪ Another possibility is that caffeine affects skeletal muscles indirectly.
▪ Thus carnitine is crucial for mitochondrial energy production, and this is of particular importance in skeletal and heart muscle.
▪ Here the processes of breakdown are qualitatively similar to those in vertebrate skeletal muscle.
▪ Gap junctions are distributed in a wide variety of tissues, with the possible exceptions of adult skeletal muscles and most neurones.
▪ Their properties are in some ways intermediate between those of the skeletal muscles and the smooth muscles found in other phyla.
smooth
▪ In addition to its potent vasoconstrictive actions, ET-1 is also a mitogen for vascular smooth muscle cells.
▪ Here adenosine helps control the tone of the smooth muscles used to propel feces on its way.
▪ When thought to involve abnormalities of smooth muscle without abnormalities in myenteric neurons the syndrome is termed hollow visceral myopathy.
▪ The smooth muscles thus more easily contract in a characteristic rhythm called intestinal peristalsis.
▪ The L-arginine-NO system exerts various biological actions including vascular smooth muscle relaxation and inhibition of platelet aggregation.
▪ This would facilitate the calculation of peristaltic velocity and the speed of contractility of gut smooth muscle with high temporal resolution.
▪ Electrical control activity is caused by the entrainment of the fluctuations of the transmembrane potentials of individual smooth muscle cells.
▪ Several theories of the factors causing smooth muscle cell proliferation have been made.
strong
▪ Such embryonic creatures needed stronger muscles, too, and a skin that was resistant to drying out.
▪ The mining industry especially rewarded strong back muscles without much regard for smart minds.
▪ Do remember that strong arm muscles and shoulders will help protect the back.
▪ Doctors reasoned that limbs left untreated would draw into deformity by strong muscles pulling against weakened ones.
▪ He was a little ponderous, but it was thick strong muscle which made him so.
▪ You should never apply pressure to the spine itself, but the strong muscles either side can take firm pressure.
▪ Strength Strong muscles are not necessarily big and bulky muscles.
▪ The knee, then the still strong muscles of the thighs.
■ NOUN
arm
▪ Do remember that strong arm muscles and shoulders will help protect the back.
▪ Fig. 8 Arm muscles Ballistic stretching is more vigorous, as the name suggests, and involves bouncing and jerking movements.
calf
▪ Any exercises which use the calf muscles, such as heel raises, hopping, standing on one leg would be beneficial.
▪ There were thick bulbous calf muscles teetering on stiletto heels.
▪ If you can improve the power of your calf muscles you will find that you can build up your mileage without difficulty.
▪ George Williams played his first game after suffering from a strained calf muscle and quite clearly didn't have his full movement.
▪ But defender Andy Barlow will be sidelined for a month after straining a calf muscle in training.
▪ Harvey Williams did not suit up because of his torn calf muscle.
▪ Only a few minutes ago I felt a slight twitch in the boy's calf muscle.
▪ Williams said Thursday that he expects to miss three weeks with his partially torn calf muscle.
cell
▪ In addition to its potent vasoconstrictive actions, ET-1 is also a mitogen for vascular smooth muscle cells.
▪ Then the cells were exposed to cytomegalovirus, to which the muscle cells are particularly susceptible.
▪ Heart tissue has a complex architecture that includes blood vessels and connective tissue, as well as muscle cells.
▪ The production of a visceral-specific anti-peptide antibody should permit a further investigation of its expression in smooth muscle cells.
▪ There is no difficulty in recognizing a red blood cell, a muscle cell, or a nerve cell.
▪ Electrical control activity is caused by the entrainment of the fluctuations of the transmembrane potentials of individual smooth muscle cells.
▪ Several theories of the factors causing smooth muscle cell proliferation have been made.
▪ When the horse is resting, this heat production is minimal because the muscle cells are fairly inactive.
contraction
▪ The taser fires a two-pronged dart that overrides the central nervous system and causes uncontrollable muscle contractions.
▪ The vascular changes and muscle contraction then could be considered to be of secondary importance.
▪ Locomotion is effected by undulating waves of muscle contraction and relaxation which alternate on the dorsal and ventral aspects of the worm.
▪ The problem is that this wrong-way impulse sets off a muscle contraction in each of those several hundred muscle fibers.
▪ Even more ciliary muscle contraction will be required for near vision and this may be uncomfortable.
▪ Attention originally focused on the way caffeine affects muscle contraction and reflexes.
▪ The tetanus bacteria grow at the site of the injury and release a toxin which produces rigid muscles and muscle contractions.
▪ The powerful involuntary muscle contractions are often quite distressing to the patient.
fibres
▪ In cases with massive deposits, there were degenerative changes in muscle fibres, with muscle tissue being replaced by amyloid.
▪ Myoglobin, a protein similar to haemoglobin in red blood cells, acts as a store for oxygen within the muscle fibres.
▪ The muscle fibres of white meat, by contrast, have a low content of myoglobin and mitochondria.
▪ Remember calcium is an electrolyte and is vital for the contraction of muscle fibres.
▪ They have no nervous system, no muscle fibres.
▪ In muscle disease degeneration of muscle fibres and replacement with fibrous tissue have been seen.
▪ Indeed, some animal tissues still practise anaerobic respiration - including muscle fibres, for short periods.
▪ The small, bouncing stretch routine is likely to introduce minute tears in muscle fibres and so should be avoided.
group
▪ The trapezius muscle group is kite-shaped and basically pulls the head and the shoulders back.
▪ Focus on certain muscle groups for sports that tend to overuse specific muscles.
▪ Well-equipped gyms will have a large selection of leg machines designed to isolate the various muscle groups.
▪ These are the major muscle groups at work when the transfer from backswing to forward swing starts.
▪ The twenty original muscle groups may be combined, as follows, into seven separate exercises.
▪ Practitioners vary in their technique but most use fewer muscle groups and exercises than the original procedures.
▪ If you fail to experience tension you must try to develop your own exercise which serves to tense that particular muscle group.
▪ Tensing the muscle groups Hold each tensing exercise for approximately five seconds then release the tension immediately not gradually.
heart
▪ The attack was over, but how on earth could Shelley know what damage had been done to the heart muscle?
▪ Heart failure means that the heart muscle is not pumping well enough to meet the need for oxygen-rich blood.
▪ Magnesium is thought to affect the heart muscle.
▪ The beat also can be affected if sections of the heart muscle are unusually thick.
▪ Thus carnitine is crucial for mitochondrial energy production, and this is of particular importance in skeletal and heart muscle.
▪ Death occurs when a quickened beat pushes the heart muscle to complete collapse.
▪ However, if the mice were taken off the drug treatment, the damage to the heart muscle started immediately.
▪ Amyloidosis occurs when an abnormal protein becomes fibrous and becomes deposited in the heart muscle.
leg
▪ Particular attention should be paid to the lower spine and leg muscles - they remember every step of the way.
▪ Pull up your leg muscles and feel how solid that left thigh is becoming!
▪ Their leg muscles were stiff, their knees hurt, their shoulders resented the weight of their rifles.
▪ How else, besides using her leg muscles, might she be able to help herself to stand up?
▪ You can feel the leg muscles really hardening as you pedal hard up a hill.
▪ Sit as shown, and place your hands on the lower thighs so you can feel the leg muscle contractions.
▪ Ooooooh, how her leg muscles did ache from holding her skirt in this proper fashion - with blue flowers on it.
neck
▪ At the same time she could feel her neck muscles being strained.
▪ Surgical therapy has been attempted by section of various neck muscles or the accessory nerve.
▪ Gosse had been watching all in silence, his jaw clenched, his neck muscles taut.
▪ Tony smiled and without moving his left knee dodged the blows, his torso jinking, neck muscles popping.
▪ Francesca's neck muscles tensed every time she took a breath and her nostrils dilated.
▪ The high rate of acceleration strained her neck muscles.
▪ This exercise relaxes the neck muscles and relieves tension.
▪ We stood there a long time watching, heads tipped back, neck muscles beginning to ache.
relaxation
▪ I use acupuncture to promote muscle relaxation and reduce inflammation in the back's muscles.
▪ A follow-up study that looks at the long-term effects of transcendental meditation and muscle relaxation is expected to be completed in August.
▪ The L-arginine-NO system exerts various biological actions including vascular smooth muscle relaxation and inhibition of platelet aggregation.
▪ The study found that transcendental meditation was twice as effective as muscle relaxation in reducing blood pressure.
▪ Non-viable cells did not produce muscle relaxation.
▪ Only viable mononuclear cells and granulocytes caused muscle relaxation, suggesting that the relaxing factor is not stored by these cells.
stomach
▪ Northern's biggest setback came with the loss of midfield maestro Deryck Fox with pulled stomach muscles.
▪ Byrd had his arm broken, Noville had his stomach muscles torn.
▪ My stomach muscles were up to it, but I didn't want to lose any more teeth.
▪ Using his arms and stomach muscles, trying to keep his chest still, he sat.
▪ A day later, the tissue was inserted between stomach muscles, just above the bellybutton, where blood supply is plentiful.
▪ Then, glancing quickly at Jem, he slowly climbed the stairs, feeling his bruised stomach muscles protest with every step.
▪ Star Damon Bailey is playing with a torn stomach muscle.
strain
▪ Warming up Before you begin, take time to do the leg stretches overleaf which will help prevent any muscle strain.
▪ Hill has ended his last three games in agony since he first suffered the muscle strain at Ipswich earlier this month.
▪ After missing the first Test because of a muscle strain, Gillespie now has 18 wickets in the series.
tension
▪ Any experienced masseur can tell how often, as they release muscle tension, tears are shed.
▪ A series of twitches builds up muscle tension into a sustained contraction.
▪ In this way heart rate, respiration rate, oxygen consumption, and muscle tension all reduce without conscious effort.
▪ They suggested that the newfound connection might explain the apparent link between muscle tension and severe headaches.
▪ Cervical reintegration relieved muscle tension, principally in the neck and back regions, but also locally around specific joints as indicated.
▪ This prolonged tension travels up to your shoulders, neck and face and increases muscle tension in these areas.
▪ Many people control their feelings through muscle tension and may re-experience these feelings spontaneously when the muscle spasm is broken up.
thigh
▪ DeFreitas injured a thigh muscle early in the tour and missed the first Test.
▪ Frank had a perfect bubble-butt and massive thigh muscles clearly outlined in his khaki pants.
▪ As Grant hurried down the narrow concrete stairs, he felt the first warning stab of pain in his torn thigh muscle.
▪ Quickly Robert inserted the needle into the thigh muscle, and in about a minute, the small body went limp.
▪ Carling strained a thigh muscle in Dunedin and Bayfield ended that match on a stretcher with a neck seizure.
▪ This stretches and tones the front thigh muscle without adding bulk, and relaxes the muscles after the previous exercise.
▪ When finally I made the summit, my throat parched, my thigh muscles trembling, the herb woman was waiting.
▪ Former Manchester United reserve Paul Dalton is rated extremely doubtful with a strained thigh muscle.
tissue
▪ Lose weight too quickly and you will lose muscle tissue as well as fat.
▪ Massage-Good for general relaxation and to relieve stress buildup in the muscle tissue.
▪ In cases with massive deposits, there were degenerative changes in muscle fibres, with muscle tissue being replaced by amyloid.
▪ Nessim, who has created a documentary on cancer survivors, beat a rare muscle tissue cancer 21 years ago.
▪ Their finding could lead to new treatments for muscle wasting in humans, or ways to conserve muscle tissue during space flight.
▪ Loss of muscle tissue is accelerated in women at the time of menopause.
▪ The results in Fig. 3 confirm that the isoform is only expressed in visceral smooth muscle tissues.
▪ Larding slows the cooking process, however, since the fat heats more slowly than the muscle tissue.
tone
▪ We are taken to a place where characters have nice little problems and impressive muscle tone.
▪ Atonic seizures are characterized by a sudden loss of postural muscle tone.
▪ These can be very helpful in cases where lack of muscle tone is the main reason for incontinence.
▪ She also pointed out balance, muscle tone, and motor planning problems.
▪ They looked fantastic, all appealing muscle tone and clean, well-conditioned hair.
▪ A baby with low muscle tone has a slumped posture and is slow to sit up.
▪ Good weight control must be coupled with good nutrition and adequate exercise to maintain muscle tone.
▪ Someday these exigencies will show up as bad skin and collapsed muscle tone.
■ VERB
build
▪ Experts say there's no scientific evidence the drug helps build muscle.
▪ At least in Baja California, real estate should remain a prime factor in building new economic muscle.
▪ This is why people who want to build muscle have 4 or 5 smaller meals throughout the day.
▪ A series of twitches builds up muscle tension into a sustained contraction.
▪ Again, this is a very friendly area ideal for building up muscles and confidence.
▪ He was wiry and supple and began to train with weights to build up his muscles.
▪ But if he really wants to build up his muscles for a gold, he should try lifting his wallet.
▪ It is the fastest, most effective way to build muscles in existence.
cause
▪ These synapse with six motor cells, whose axons cause the muscles which withdraw the gill to contract.
▪ This may be due to the severe hypokalemia, which can cause respiratory muscle dysfunction.
▪ Parkinson's disease is a degenerative brain disorder that causes tremors and muscle rigidity among other symptoms.
▪ The sedative effects of alcohol cause the throat muscle to relax too much and also interfere with the involuntary awakening mechanisms.
▪ The taser fires a two-pronged dart that overrides the central nervous system and causes uncontrollable muscle contractions.
▪ By instigating a calcium deficiency inside the cells, the drugs cause muscles lining arterial walls to relax.
▪ You can expect a few aches tomorrow, as new exercises usually cause our muscles to respond 48 hours after we do them.
▪ Usually caused by muscle imbalance, but can be aggravated by bad shoes.
control
▪ The subject remains conscious and alert, but can not control his muscles.
▪ This hormone helps to control growth of muscle, bone and the cells of the immune system.
▪ More neurons are needed to control their larger muscle mass and to collect data from their extra sensors.
▪ He seemed to be having difficulty in controlling the muscles which worked in his forehead and at the corners of his mouth.
▪ At the junction of nerves and muscles, these neurones control the contraction of muscles.
▪ Many people control their feelings through muscle tension and may re-experience these feelings spontaneously when the muscle spasm is broken up.
develop
▪ Suppose a blacksmith does develop big muscles.
▪ Helen had developed muscles in her arms after all, it was carrying children that did it.
▪ He appeared unrepentant and impassioned in favour of us developing our nuclear muscle - for defence.
▪ The skeletal width of the shoulders is hereditary but an illusion of breadth can be created by fully developing the shoulder muscles.
▪ But these muddy-water fish have developed banks of modified muscle tissue that generate electrical charges on a much greater scale.
▪ Running or jumping exercises can encourage cellulite and swimming will develop the muscles in the shoulders.
▪ Obviously weight-lifting will develop many muscles.
▪ Perhaps you are developing the wrong muscles or refining movements which are opposed to the natural physiology of your hands.
feel
▪ There was the crunch of his feet rapidly moving away over the snow and she felt her tense muscles relax.
▪ Mitchell inhaled the laundered fragrance of her skirt, felt the pack of muscles on her thighs beneath the denim.
▪ He could feel a muscle twitching under his eye.
▪ I could feel the muscles on his back struggle as we made our sixth circle around the house.
▪ At the same time she could feel her neck muscles being strained.
▪ It reached the flat tummy and Ronnie spread it for a moment, feeling Mavis's muscles quiver.
▪ She felt the muscles of her face lock with distaste.
▪ Then, glancing quickly at Jem, he slowly climbed the stairs, feeling his bruised stomach muscles protest with every step.
flex
▪ This is an unfamiliar luxury for Labour voters; now they want to flex their muscles.
▪ Soldiers, who previously had lacked social status, were now flexing their muscles because the military ran the country.
▪ She watched him raise one hand to rub the nape of his neck, then flex his shoulder muscles.
▪ If you want to be an entrepreneur, you have to flex your muscles.
▪ Only several good saves by Nicky Weaver kept the score down as Arsenal flexed their attacking muscles.
▪ At the same time, it was beginning to flex its muscles on the world stage.
▪ He seized a horrible pair of forceps and I closed my eyes as he started flexing his muscles.
▪ It also allows Delaney to flex her acting muscles.
move
▪ I was in no fit state to move a muscle.
▪ And yet in spite of that - or maybe because of it - she could not move one single frozen muscle of her body.
▪ The exercise allows you to move and stabilize muscles in the movement.
▪ So deeply asleep, he moved not a muscle.
▪ They will not move a muscle for at least another month or two.
▪ The soldier waited without moving a muscle.
▪ Virginia felt frozen to the spot, unable to move a muscle.
pull
▪ It tends to go on strike by pulling a muscle or twisting a joint.
▪ These help reduce the risk of pulled muscles.
▪ Naked, Julia stretched under the sheet, stretched so hard she pulled her stomach muscles to their full length.
▪ It came 11 days ago, when Ramon Martinez pulled a groin muscle and had to leave a game in Chicago.
▪ I was still at the crease, but having pulled a muscle in my leg I was batting with a runner.
▪ Washington pulled the muscle while covering Galloway in the third quarter.
▪ On the Thursday Luis Mendoza pulled a groin muscle, so Luke had to take his place.
▪ Slowly and smoothly pull your abdominal muscles in tight, keeping your chest and thighs in contact with the floor.
relax
▪ Gently stretch upwards for 15 counts. Relax the tummy muscles, then repeat.
▪ Conditioning the patient to relax these muscles through electromyographic biofeedback techniques has been attempted with some degree of success.
▪ These five-minute injections plump out the frown lines and defeat wrinkles by relaxing forehead muscles.
▪ The therapeutic pool helped patients build strength and stamina, while the warm saltwater relaxed their muscles.
▪ Hold this position for 5 counts. Relax your tummy muscles by cuddling the knees and repeat the exercise.
▪ We learn to relax the muscles in our throat, jaws, even in our shoulders and back.
▪ When you get home, take your heels off, stretch your toes and rotate your ankles to relax the muscles.
▪ Marvellous for relaxing aching muscles after a hard day in the hills.
strengthen
▪ The good news is that you can strengthen pelvic floor muscles through exercises.
▪ For example, football players should focus strengthening lower extremity muscles.
▪ This week she has devised the Oblique Crunch, to strengthen abdominal muscles.
▪ The group strengthened like a muscle.
▪ He joined in exercise classes to stretch and strengthen his muscles, and consequently became increasingly disabled.
▪ This situation will respond to exercises directed at strengthening the muscles.
▪ They will be able to advise you and may recommend exercises to strengthen your pelvic floor muscles or other treatment.
▪ Treatment often begins with simple Kegel exercises designed to strengthen pelvic muscles.
stretch
▪ He joined in exercise classes to stretch and strengthen his muscles, and consequently became increasingly disabled.
▪ Be sure never to rush them, but feel how they are toning and stretching your muscles as never before.
▪ Not any more: your body is stretching magnificently and your muscles are getting into better shape every day!
▪ The environment, in fact, does work on him, by stretching the antigravity muscles in his legs on impact.
▪ Simply allow the body to fall forward and the weight of the body will stretch your muscles.
▪ That you can carry heavy bags and bend down without a twinge in the back? Stretch those muscles and smile!
▪ He got out to stretch his cramped muscles.
tense
▪ There was the crunch of his feet rapidly moving away over the snow and she felt her tense muscles relax.
▪ He thinks it is a type of shivering similar to repeatedly tensing one's muscles.
▪ Another technique for delaying ejaculation is for the man to practice tensing his muscles to stop the flow while urinating.
▪ If you fail to experience tension you must try to develop your own exercise which serves to tense that particular muscle group.
▪ Try not to tense the muscles so hard that you produce cramp or pain.
▪ They still breathe out when they strike, forcing the air out of their body and tensing their muscles.
▪ Her hand froze against his cheek as the realisation tensed every muscle in her body.
use
▪ In the great pressure for profits, the large stores are using their muscle to get their share of the market.
▪ The boat seemed to be crying out in pain, like an arthritic suddenly called upon to use weak muscles.
▪ We then start to use our voluntary muscles for support - something for which they were not designed.
▪ The ball is so outstretched that Edney can not bend his elbow to use his upper-arm muscles.
▪ Any exercises which use the calf muscles, such as heel raises, hopping, standing on one leg would be beneficial.
▪ It was clearly a case of workers trying to use union muscle to hold off reality.
▪ Some flies no longer use muscles directly attached to the bases of the wings.
▪ Just to be using brain and muscles and feelings all together at once, and not failing.
work
▪ These latter exercises also work the lower trapezius muscles and the rhomboids.
▪ Phenolphthalein apparently works by stimulating muscles responsible for forcing matter through the intestines.
▪ The Ultratone Facial works by stimulating the muscles and giving them concentrated exercise.
▪ She practiced the Sister Kenny method of muscle reeducation, working even with the muscles that appeared to have lost all function.
▪ This time it held out longer, and gradually it learned the way to work its muscles and to develop their strength.
▪ And if we want to tighten and tone our bodies, we need to do toning exercises that work specific muscle groups.
▪ But there will never be an exercise as good as squats for working all of the muscles together.
▪ Swimming is one of the most effective exercises, working every muscle in your body for all-over fitness and body-confidence.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
flex your muscles
▪ This new position should give you the chance to really flex your muscles.
▪ At the same time, it was beginning to flex its muscles on the world stage.
▪ Harold was flexing his muscles for the perfect balance, teeth bared, knife poised over his head.
▪ He seized a horrible pair of forceps and I closed my eyes as he started flexing his muscles.
▪ If you want to be an entrepreneur, you have to flex your muscles.
▪ Like Querelle, men in tatty soiled uniforms are flexing their muscles, while others stare vacantly into the middle distance.
▪ Read in studio Finally tonight we're going to flex our muscles.
▪ Soldiers, who previously had lacked social status, were now flexing their muscles because the military ran the country.
▪ This is an unfamiliar luxury for Labour voters; now they want to flex their muscles.
nerve/muscle fibres
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Hanson Trust has the muscle to buy up some of America's biggest companies.
▪ Panetta used his muscle to keep the budget agreement intact.
▪ The government has for years been trying to destroy the muscle of the trade unions.
▪ The Republicans do not have the political muscle to prevent the treaty being rejected by Congress.
▪ This exercise works the muscles of your leg.
▪ U.S. military muscle
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ His body tightened, the muscles drawing in on themselves.
▪ Low vitamin D also is associated with muscle weakness, which could contribute to a fall.
▪ Now, leg stretched and r-o-l-l back those muscles.
▪ The group strengthened like a muscle.
▪ The joint and muscle were all right.
▪ The trapezius muscle group is kite-shaped and basically pulls the head and the shoulders back.
▪ There may also be numbness or muscle weakness occurring in a segmental pattern.
▪ They had to cut out seven inches of muscle in my legs.
II.verbCOLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
in
▪ The last thing she wanted was to have some overbearing man muscling in.
■ NOUN
way
▪ But other alleged triad leaders used violence to muscle their way into the business, according to the police.
▪ Guliaggi and Norrejo are muscling their way through the mob.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
nerve/muscle fibres
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ And for Gingrich to try to muscle anyone would backfire.
▪ At the same time, Rick Zombo was muscling Rob Niedermayer into the crease.
▪ Yield grade is based on the degree of fatness and the degree of muscling.