How to Use right brain in a Sentence

right brain

noun
  • And give your right brain permission to let all hell break loose.
    — Phil Davison, Washington Post, 7 Oct. 2022
  • The right brain sees in wholes (the gestalt), whereas the left brain loves systems.
    — Christian Wiman, Harpers Magazine, 23 Nov. 2025
  • The right brain sees in wholes (the gestalt), whereas the left brain loves systems.
    — Christian Wiman, Harpers Magazine, 30 Dec. 2025
  • My left and right brain are competing with each other at all times.
    — Griselda Flores, Billboard, 28 Mar. 2022
  • The left brain and the right brain were both incredibly full.
    — Lily Janiak, San Francisco Chronicle, 13 Apr. 2018
  • The right brain imagines; the left brain analyzes.
    — Christian Wiman, Harpers Magazine, 23 Nov. 2025
  • The right brain imagines; the left brain analyzes.
    — Christian Wiman, Harpers Magazine, 30 Dec. 2025
  • The thoughts come quickly as the right brain and left brain begin to interact.
    — Ira Gostin, Forbes, 8 Nov. 2021
  • The two choices feel like an analogy for the right brain warring with the left brain.
    — Margaret Farrell, SPIN, 30 Sep. 2024
  • While the left brain specializes in language, the right brain is involved too.
    — Carrie Madormo, Rn, Health, 28 Oct. 2024
  • Thus, the right brain waves can drive microglia to consume the toxic protein deposits.
    — Quanta Magazine, 27 May 2020
  • Lewin stands as one of the few to successfully break down the left brain/right brain segregation.
    — Chadd Scott, Forbes, 7 Dec. 2024
  • His right brain is focused on finding a tougher challenge, while his left brain wants better angles for photos.
    — John Thompson, Men's Health, 19 Oct. 2022
  • But with so many brain boosters available, finding the right brain supplement can feel like an overwhelming task.
    — Dallas News, 23 Aug. 2022
  • Dogs used the right brain more for negative sounds (fear, sadness) and the left brain more for positive sounds (happiness).
    — Lucy Notarantonio, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Nov. 2025
  • Her insights focus more on right brain strategy than left brain creativity.
    — Chadd Scott, Forbes, 7 Dec. 2024
  • Their right brain, which receives signals from the left eye, controls the ability to recognise other pigeons.
    — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 8 Apr. 2010
  • Poetry comes from the right brain but, interestingly, language comes largely from the left.
    — Christian Wiman, Harpers Magazine, 23 Nov. 2025
  • Poetry comes from the right brain but, interestingly, language comes largely from the left.
    — Christian Wiman, Harpers Magazine, 30 Dec. 2025
  • Traditionally this difference has been simplified in terms of ‘left brain’ versus ‘right brain’ thinkers.
    — Mark Soares, Rolling Stone, 12 July 2023
  • The difference is that the 2026 Lexus ES offers a wider range of right brain options.
    — Karl Brauer, Forbes.com, 27 May 2026
  • The pop psychology notion of a left brain and a right brain doesn’t capture their intimate working relationship.
    — Carl Zimmer, Discover Magazine, 19 Aug. 2014
  • Talking about the balance between heart and logic, or emotion and scientific thinking — that kind of left brain/right brain dichotomy.
    — Ryan Reed, Spin, 15 Aug. 2023
  • Brain Balance claims that a right brain weakness can cause impulsivity and anxiety, while a left brain weakness can lead to poor math or reading skills.
    — NBC News, 20 Dec. 2019
  • Animals process threatening stimuli in their right brain-hemisphere, using their left eye, so the direction of the horse's gaze revealed their read of the photograph.
    — Laura Yan, Popular Mechanics, 29 Apr. 2018
  • In the end, our right brains were satisfied with the Passat in hard, cold, objective terms, and our left brains were smitten with its character and personality.
    — Frank Markus, Car and Driver, 31 Aug. 2023
  • The studio’s ‘left and right brain’ approach combines a deep understanding of the cultural zeitgeist and intuition for business, product and celebrity.
    — Lisa Lockwood, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2019
  • Universal stars are well above the zero line, plus today’s inner collab of left and right brain working together could build powerful synergy in problem solving.
    — Magi Helena, Dallas Morning News, 9 Jan. 2026
  • Meanwhile, patients were better at reproducing drawings with their left hand than with their right, indicating that the right brain plays an important role in spatial reasoning.
    — Kate Golembiewski, Discover Magazine, 11 Jan. 2022
  • User friendly depends on personalities, habits, left brain, right brain and other impossible-to-quantify factors.
    — Gene Marks, Forbes, 22 Apr. 2022

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