How to Use voluntary muscle in a Sentence

voluntary muscle

noun
  • When these cells die, voluntary muscle control and movement dies with them.
    — Jennie Key, Cincinnati.com, 2 Feb. 2018
  • This leads to a loss of control of voluntary muscle movements, including speech and breathing.
    — Julie Jag, The Salt Lake Tribune, 5 May 2022
  • In normal REM sleep, the brain shuts down voluntary muscle movement, to keep the dreamer from acting out the dream.
    — Linda Rodriguez McRobbie, BostonGlobe.com, 23 Mar. 2018
  • When voluntary muscle action is progressively affected, people may lose the ability to speak, eat, move and breathe.
    — Raechal Shewfelt, Entertainment Weekly, 8 Dec. 2025
  • Chewing, walking, and talking are common examples of voluntary muscle movements.
    — Elizabeth Ayoola, Essence, 15 Nov. 2022
  • The neurodegenerative disease slowly puts the nerves that work to trigger voluntary muscle movement out of working order.
    — Nina Godlewski, Newsweek, 14 Mar. 2018
  • One striking thing is that two of the subjects actually regained the ability to exert a bit of voluntary muscle control in their formerly paralyzed limbs.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 8 Feb. 2022
  • Jayden suffers from spinal muscular atrophy, a genetic disease that affects the part of the nervous system that controls voluntary muscle movement.
    — Mari A. Schaefer, Philly.com, 16 May 2018
  • The 37-year-old was diagnosed at age 2 with a genetic disease that, among other things, affects the central nervous system and voluntary muscle movement.
    — NBC News, 9 Oct. 2020
  • As these neurons die, people progressively lose control of their voluntary muscles, ultimately leading to uncontrolled tremors.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 2 Sep. 2017
  • Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis – sometimes known as Lou Gehrig’s Disease – affects the nerve cells that control voluntary muscles.
    — al, 19 Feb. 2023
  • His disease, formally known as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, attacks nerve cells in the brain and progressively takes away the patient's control of voluntary muscles -- the brain itself isn't affected.
    — Michelle Fay Cortez, chicagotribune.com, 6 Oct. 2017
  • His disease, formally known as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, attacks nerve cells in the brain and progressively takes away the patient’s control of voluntary muscles -- the brain itself isn’t affected.
    — Michelle Cortez, Bloomberg.com, 5 Oct. 2017
  • Kevan was born with something called spinal muscular atrophy (SMA), a genetic disease affecting the part of the nervous system that controls voluntary muscle movement.
    — Shari Puterman, USA TODAY, 1 June 2018
  • As the world would come to know, Hawking suffered from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, a disease that ravages the neurons controlling voluntary muscle movement, but leaves cognitive functioning intact.
    — Brian Greene, Time, 15 Mar. 2018
  • Imagining on purpose The difference between voluntary imagination and involuntary imagination is analogous to the difference between voluntary muscle control and muscle spasm.
    — Andrey Vyshedskiy, The Conversation, 23 Feb. 2023

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