How to Use visceral in a Sentence
visceral
adjective
- Her visceral reaction was to curse at the other driver.
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The footage was visceral, the mood in the chamber somber.
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Grace Segers,
The New Republic,
9 June 2022
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That's where the visceral punch comes from in rock and roll.
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James Brown,
USA TODAY,
25 Dec. 2022
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The vagus nerve goes down the neck and runs through the visceral organs.
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Tim Hornyak,
Scientific American,
10 May 2018
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The lyrics in this song are visceral and strong, just as the feelings have been.
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Rania Aniftos,
Billboard,
12 July 2019
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The reaction to the ad has been as visceral as the ad itself.
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Douglas Perry,
OregonLive.com,
29 June 2017
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The visceral attacks that came my way were like a shock to my system.
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Ellen McGirt,
Fortune,
23 Oct. 2017
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The piece that is so visceral for me is the mindset of needing to care for others.
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Deepa Bharath,
Orange County Register,
17 Mar. 2017
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To evoke a sense of touch and feeling is a visceral way to make a connection.
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Katherine Hu,
The Atlantic,
15 Oct. 2022
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Some items are more visceral, like a piece of leather from his dead son’s shoe.
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Gal Beckerman,
New York Times,
24 June 2019
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Some of its more visceral scenes aren’t easy to forget.
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Washington Post,
20 Aug. 2021
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Then the need to relieve the pain in my feet overcame a visceral reluctance to dive in.
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Tim Folger,
National Geographic,
17 Nov. 2020
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But that’s a deep, visceral trust in faith, rather than some glib cliché.
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Julie Beck,
The Atlantic,
23 July 2021
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The pain is visceral, and the loss of her more devastating.
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Emma Austin,
The Courier-Journal,
15 Sep. 2020
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But the visceral charge of early episodes fades as lengthy flashbacks seem to pad episode running times.
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Daniel D'addario,
Variety,
2 Mar. 2022
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But more visceral is to see these shots up on walls, gracing the show’s clever settings.
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Steve Johnson,
chicagotribune.com,
5 Apr. 2018
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For this film, there is something that is so visceral about a woman playing the drums.
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Mia Galuppo,
The Hollywood Reporter,
26 Mar. 2020
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The film proves once again that war is hell, but the aftermath can be just as visceral and thoughtful.
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Brian Truitt,
Detroit Free Press,
9 Jan. 2020
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That visceral distrust makes people of color run and hide for their lives at the sight of police.
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oregonlive,
17 Nov. 2020
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Our visceral attachment to the era goes way beyond a slip dress and combat boots.
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Laird Borrelli-Persson,
Vogue,
10 Sep. 2020
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One of the big challenges was how to express war and epic battle, but still be real and raw and visceral.
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Maureen Lee Lenker,
EW.com,
4 Sep. 2020
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He was admired for his shrewdness and his visceral desire to win.
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Bart Barnes,
Washington Post,
2 July 2019
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There was something very visceral about her and something very brave.
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Zoe Haylock,
Vulture,
9 Nov. 2021
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The pain, still so visceral, sometimes catches up with her and is hard to put into words.
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Thomas Curwen Staff Writer,
Los Angeles Times,
5 Dec. 2021
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The images in these stories can be visceral and evocative.
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Stephen Engelberg,
ProPublica,
16 June 2020
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For those who live in the crisis every day, these questions are visceral.
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Campbell Robertson,
New York Times,
11 Aug. 2022
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My reaction was almost a visceral anger at how much these women had been put through to take the stand.
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Carly Thomas,
The Hollywood Reporter,
20 Dec. 2022
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Keri rolled onto her side and put both hands over her face and let out one of those raw, visceral sobbing bursts.
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Lindsey Bever,
chicagotribune.com,
9 May 2017
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But there was something about that video of George Floyd that was so poignant and visceral.
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1843,
5 June 2020
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There was visceral emotion and power in her tugging on his arms.
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Washington Post,
6 Oct. 2020
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