solar plexus
Example Sentences
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"That would have been a big punch in the solar plexus for Brennan," says Blake.
From BBC • Nov. 12, 2025
And at Paris Fashion Week last year, it was unmissable: a giant, gleaming butterfly hanging above her solar plexus at the Louis Vuitton men’s show by Pharrell Williams.
From Los Angeles Times • May 13, 2024
Its tension seeps into your limbs, settles tautly in your solar plexus and does not leave.
From New York Times • Nov. 15, 2022
Once teams are hit in the solar plexus with a loss as sudden and devastating as Tuesday’s — and they’re rare — it’s really, really hard to bounce back.
From Seattle Times • Oct. 12, 2022
After this one, he touches my solar plexus with his outspread hand, adding, “What slumbers in the heart is what slumbers in the stone, understand?”
From "I'll Give You the Sun" by Jandy Nelson
