solar plexus

Example Sentences

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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

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

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

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