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

Importantly, this feature was preserved during aging, even when the nasopharyngeal lymphatic plexus had shrunk and was functionally impaired.

From Science Daily • Jan. 26, 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

“You can’t breathe, you can’t feel. The ties are on your solar plexus, not on your waist.”

From New York Times • Oct. 7, 2022

And then he lay there in his fever of sorry and repeated the now memorized note in his head and wanted to cry, but instead he only felt this aching behind his solar plexus.

From "An Abundance of Katherines" by John Green