solar plexus
Example Sentences
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For all of the good things in their performance it ended with a kick to the solar plexus.
From BBC • May 25, 2024
My solar plexus warmed in the familiar way then — as though here, too, might be an opening for me to see my way through to a life populated with more desire than dread.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 15, 2023
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
Coming through the heating vent, Fard Muhammad’s deep voice had made her solar plexus vibrate.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
