How to Use solar plexus in a Sentence

solar plexus

noun
  • Place the moonstone on your third eye and then your solar plexus.
    — Blake Bakkila, Good Housekeeping, 5 Mar. 2019
  • And my solar plexus feels more open, my shoulders more relaxed.
    — Jessie Sholl, The Cut, 14 May 2018
  • My solar plexus – slow rising heat, like a tea kettle on simmer.
    — Sam McManis, Sacramento Bee, 31 Jan. 2024
  • Take three deep breaths from your solar plexus chakra, which about two inches above your belly button.
    — Sara M Moniuszko, USA TODAY, 11 Aug. 2022
  • Yet his resemblance to Elvis never quite hits you in the solar plexus.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 25 May 2022
  • The next morning, Jamie showed up and punched the manager in the solar plexus.
    — Kerry Howley, Vulture, 7 Nov. 2022
  • Every so often, a performance hits you right in the solar plexus.
    — Scott Cantrell, Dallas News, 31 Jan. 2022
  • But yeah, that one about the Cleveland schools kind of really kind of hit me in the solar plexus there.
    — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 30 Mar. 2022
  • In other words, all is on the surface, and nuance is banished like a foot slammed into the solar plexus.
    — Gal Beckerman, The Atlantic, 15 June 2026
  • Prices that jumped to a degree acted like a punch to the financial solar plexus of a large portion of renters.
    — Erik Sherman, Forbes.com, 25 Aug. 2025
  • The device worms its way into a patient’s chest through a three-quarter-inch incision in the solar plexus.
    — Danielle Egan, Discover Magazine, 29 Jan. 2011
  • The third chakra, which is yellow and in the solar plexus, supports you in establishing all-things structure.
    — Nathalie Kirby, House Beautiful, 8 Mar. 2021
  • Four male figures stood before me, their long necks headless, two-thirds of their abdomens replaced by their heads lodged between their solar plexuses and belly buttons.
    — Literary Hub, 5 Dec. 2025
  • While one album could hit you squarely in the solar plexus, by the next the conviction that Björk alone understood your crisis would have passed, never to return.
    — Anahid Nersessian, The New York Review of Books, 1 Dec. 2022
  • Winter tuned up his body through Duncan-style exercises—energy radiating from his solar plexus out to his limbs—at the dance barre.
    — Guillermo Perez, Miami Herald, 7 Oct. 2025
  • Revenue from congestion pricing will help modernize and speed up public transit, which in turn should get that elbow out of your solar plexus during your morning commute.
    — Justin Davidson, Daily Intelligencer, 27 Mar. 2018
  • And was that the throaty rumble of passing cars synchronizing with the nearly imperceptible vibrations in my solar plexus?
    — Los Angeles Times, 17 Feb. 2023
  • Yellow is associated with the solar plexus chakra, and people with this as their dominant aura color tend to be self assured and confident.
    — Alesandra Dubin, Woman's Day, 15 July 2022
  • At that exact moment, Chauncey Dalton—the Babe Ruth of our middle school—released a screamer that caught me right on the solar plexus.
    — Joe Zimmerman, The New Yorker, 9 June 2020
  • Lemon beat a defender up the left seam to give himself the slightest of openings deep left in the end zone, which allowed Maiava to throw the ball directly into his solar plexus.
    — Haley Sawyer, Oc Register, 28 Sep. 2025
  • This year, the Aussie rock band has lived up to their reputation for producing gorgeous, jangly guitar melodies that somehow manage to wallop your solar plexus.
    — Corbin Reiff, SPIN, 30 June 2022
  • On Sunday, the Rams quarterback appeared to take a direct shot to his chest or solar plexus when a Jaguars lineman barreled into him late in the second quarter.
    — Los Angeles Times, 6 Dec. 2021
  • The stock market is taking a punch to the solar plexus, but the part of the fantasy sports industry dedicated to prognostication about the NFL Draft hasn’t lost a step.
    — Don Yaeger, Forbes, 3 May 2022

Some of these examples are programmatically compiled from various online sources to illustrate current usage of the word 'solar plexus.' Any opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback about these examples.

Last Updated: