muscle-bound

British  

adjective

1. having overdeveloped and inelastic muscles

2. lacking flexibility

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Example Sentences

Musk reposted an artist’s depiction in which he, muscle-bound and stripped to the waist, resembles the Hulk carrying an American flag.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 9, 2024

Now, MIT engineers have developed a spring-like device that could be used as a basic skeleton-like module for almost any muscle-bound bot.

From Science Daily • Apr. 8, 2024

Every few weeks, my mother and I would drive the 20 minutes from our house to the closet Zayre department store, and I'd pick one $5 muscle-bound figure.

From Salon • Nov. 27, 2022

During her heyday in the late-1980s and early ’90s, Ms. Tenuta was sometimes carried onstage by a bodybuilder or borne aloft in a thronelike chair, raised on the shoulders of several muscle-bound men.

From Washington Post • Oct. 7, 2022

The whole statue had acquired around its northerly surfaces a bluish-green patina, so that from certain approaches, and in low light, the muscle-bound Triton really seemed a hundred leagues under the sea.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan