solar plexus
Example Sentences
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“It’s like a gut punch into the solar plexus — takes the wind out of you,” coach Jim Harbaugh said.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 8, 2025
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
As the father of two teenagers, that hit me right in the solar plexus.
From Salon • Jun. 5, 2022
"Butler does a reasonably good impersonation of Elvis's sultry velvet drawl. Yet his resemblance to Elvis never quite hits you in the solar plexus."
From BBC • May 26, 2022
Dallas’s sneaker is resting on the soft spot right below my solar plexus.
From "Liar & Spy" by Rebecca Stead
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
