How to Use visceral in a Sentence

visceral

adjective
  • Her visceral reaction was to curse at the other driver.
  • Those things are visceral for me.
    — Christopher Claxton, Billboard, 19 Sep. 2025
  • But that’s a deep, visceral trust in faith, rather than some glib cliché.
    — Julie Beck, The Atlantic, 23 July 2021
  • Some items are more visceral, like a piece of leather from his dead son’s shoe.
    — Gal Beckerman, New York Times, 24 June 2019
  • The lyrics in this song are visceral and strong, just as the feelings have been.
    — Rania Aniftos, Billboard, 12 July 2019
  • This tends to be visceral fat, which has been linked to a host of health issues.
    — Helen Carefoot, Flow Space, 3 Dec. 2025
  • The visceral attacks that came my way were like a shock to my system.
    — Ellen McGirt, Fortune, 23 Oct. 2017
  • Do you guys sit in a circle and talk about visceral ways to screw over people?
    — Carita Rizzo, Deadline, 16 June 2026
  • The vagus nerve goes down the neck and runs through the visceral organs.
    — Tim Hornyak, Scientific American, 10 May 2018
  • But more visceral is to see these shots up on walls, gracing the show’s clever settings.
    — Steve Johnson, chicagotribune.com, 5 Apr. 2018
  • The pacing could be tauter and shocks more visceral, but the film keeps us intrigued enough.
    — Bob Strauss, San Francisco Chronicle, 12 Mar. 2026
  • The film explores trauma in such a visceral way.
    — Clayton Davis, Variety, 12 Dec. 2025
  • To evoke a sense of touch and feeling is a visceral way to make a connection.
    — Katherine Hu, The Atlantic, 15 Oct. 2022
  • The piece that is so visceral for me is the mindset of needing to care for others.
    — Deepa Bharath, Orange County Register, 17 Mar. 2017
  • The reaction to the ad has been as visceral as the ad itself.
    — Douglas Perry, OregonLive.com, 29 June 2017
  • Now try the same thing with sound on while closing your eyes, and tell us which has the more visceral effect.
    — Richard Edwards, Space.com, 8 Oct. 2025
  • The visceral energy of the anger of this guy in a clown suit is the stuff of nightmares.
    — Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 3 June 2025
  • So the fact that anyone has any sort of visceral feelings or opinions about it?
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 19 Mar. 2026
  • Keri rolled onto her side and put both hands over her face and let out one of those raw, visceral sobbing bursts.
    — Lindsey Bever, chicagotribune.com, 9 May 2017
  • The most visceral way of feeling that in the past has been the next morning’s ratings.
    — Max Goldbart, Deadline, 29 Apr. 2026
  • For this film, there is something that is so visceral about a woman playing the drums.
    — Mia Galuppo, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 Mar. 2020
  • The pain, still so visceral, sometimes catches up with her and is hard to put into words.
    — Thomas Curwen Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 5 Dec. 2021
  • The film proves once again that war is hell, but the aftermath can be just as visceral and thoughtful.
    — Brian Truitt, Detroit Free Press, 9 Jan. 2020
  • But the visceral charge of early episodes fades as lengthy flashbacks seem to pad episode running times.
    — Daniel D'addario, Variety, 2 Mar. 2022
  • But there was something about that video of George Floyd that was so poignant and visceral.
    — 1843, 5 June 2020
  • And, when Notre Dame loses, the pain is visceral.
    — Richard Menger Md Mpa, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
  • Fair to say, that’s a visceral reaction, right?
    — Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 2 Oct. 2025
  • All of it adds up to one of the most intense and visceral experiences of the year.
    — Gieson Cacho, Mercury News, 29 Dec. 2025
  • Then the need to relieve the pain in my feet overcame a visceral reluctance to dive in.
    — Tim Folger, National Geographic, 17 Nov. 2020
  • The visceral fat is the internal fat around your organs.
    — Will Carless, USA Today, 22 Jan. 2026

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