solar plexus
Example Sentences
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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
It was like a kick to the solar plexus of their team's chances of progressing, but they were here with their noise and their colour at Stade de Nice.
From BBC • Sep. 24, 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
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
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