How to Use muscle memory in a Sentence

muscle memory

noun
  • And so the goal here is to teach this team that muscle memory.
    — Ian Parker, The New Yorker, 7 Aug. 2023
  • By the end of the evening, the five ounce pour should be a matter of muscle memory.
    — Jenn Harris, Los Angeles Times, 12 June 2025
  • And that’s where the muscle memory of a season’s worth of fights kicked in.
    — David Aldridge, The Athletic, 30 Dec. 2024
  • Dancers build muscle memory from the day-in, day-out study of technique.
    — Longreads, 25 May 2021
  • So that’s been ingrained in my muscle memory.
    — Lynette Rice, Deadline, 27 Oct. 2025
  • Once the ball is kicked off and the quarterbacks take their first snaps, muscle memory takes over.
    — Los Angeles Times, 12 Feb. 2022
  • Arm swings make a great drill for teaching technique and muscle memory.
    — Jeff Tomko, Men's Health, 2 Mar. 2023
  • This all works well, and both quickly fall into your muscle memory.
    — Alistair Charlton, Forbes, 27 Jan. 2023
  • And the Senate just doesn’t have that kind of muscle memory.
    — Eleanor Mueller, semafor.com, 25 Sep. 2025
  • The squad has changed a lot in the last six months, so not as many players have the muscle memory of this fixture.
    — Carl Anka, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2025
  • In a few short hours, some attendees had flexed their muscle memory to speed run through two-thirds of the game.
    — Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 22 Aug. 2025
  • My hand twitched toward the phone, muscle memory stronger than willpower.
    — Maggie Downs, Oc Register, 9 Sep. 2025
  • It should be noted that the league race is far from over, no matter what logic and muscle memory tell us.
    — Sam Mellinger, kansascity, 16 Jan. 2018
  • So courage becomes muscle memory—and the old behavior dies on its own.
    — Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 30 Jan. 2026
  • Coaches spent the first few days on skills and drills, just to refresh the players’ muscle memory.
    — Ryan Kartje, Los Angeles Times, 11 Jan. 2022
  • When stress and adrenaline are maxed, muscle memory is what saves your partner.
    — Hanna Wickes, Kansas City Star, 20 Feb. 2026
  • Putting up shots with Doc, Baylor takes a while to get his muscle memory back and find his form.
    — Scott Tobias, Vulture, 2 July 2024
  • Over time, Boggs' muscle memory could turn out one of these chairs in 10 hours flat.
    — TheWeek, 20 Sep. 2020
  • And yet when Biden gets into the weeds on policy, a sort of muscle memory kicks in.
    — Time, 30 Jan. 2020
  • For Allen, selling hot dogs is almost a muscle memory.
    — John Metcalfe, Mercury News, 30 Jan. 2026
  • In both spaces, the group of about two dozen fourth-graders moved through their classroom routine as if it was born of muscle memory.
    — oregonlive, 3 Apr. 2021
  • Part of it is the muscle memory of doing hard things without proper support.
    — Alli Harvey, Anchorage Daily News, 28 Aug. 2022
  • Got back here and continued to do even more snaps and just trying to get that muscle memory and all that good stuff going.
    — Mark Inabinett | [email protected], al, 18 June 2021
  • But fans seemed to be waiting for their October muscle memory to click in.
    — Ann Killion, San Francisco Chronicle, 8 Oct. 2021
  • Gaza should shock Washington out of the muscle memory that guides too many of its actions.
    — Ben Rhodes, Foreign Affairs, 18 June 2024
  • This will strengthen your muscle memory.
    — Brian Sherrod, CBS News, 23 Dec. 2025
  • The time on task has helped Newsome learn the scheme, and commit his new technique to muscle memory.
    — cleveland, 25 Aug. 2021
  • Build muscle memory, not just awareness.
    — Maxwell Alles, Forbes.com, 5 Feb. 2026
  • The thing about Ben and I switching from drums to guitar all night messed with my muscle memory.
    — Literary Hub, 23 Oct. 2025
  • But taking those tweaks from the practice court to the game -- and creating new muscle memory -- isn’t easy.
    — Chris Fedor, cleveland, 22 Nov. 2021

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