How to Use visceral in a Sentence

visceral

adjective
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  • Her visceral reaction was to curse at the other driver.
  • The footage was visceral, the mood in the chamber somber.
    — Grace Segers, The New Republic, 9 June 2022
  • That's where the visceral punch comes from in rock and roll.
    — James Brown, USA TODAY, 25 Dec. 2022
  • The vagus nerve goes down the neck and runs through the visceral organs.
    — Tim Hornyak, Scientific American, 10 May 2018
  • The lyrics in this song are visceral and strong, just as the feelings have been.
    — Rania Aniftos, Billboard, 12 July 2019
  • But that’s a deep, visceral trust in faith, rather than some glib cliché.
    — Julie Beck, The Atlantic, 23 July 2021
  • The textures in the film were so visceral: the surfaces of the house, the clothes, and especially the food.
    — Carole Horst, Variety, 10 Sep. 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 reaction to the ad has been as visceral as the ad itself.
    — Douglas Perry, OregonLive.com, 29 June 2017
  • 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 visceral attacks that came my way were like a shock to my system.
    — Ellen McGirt, Fortune, 23 Oct. 2017
  • But there was something about that video of George Floyd that was so poignant and visceral.
    — 1843, 5 June 2020
  • To evoke a sense of touch and feeling is a visceral way to make a connection.
    — Katherine Hu, The Atlantic, 15 Oct. 2022
  • Some of its more visceral scenes aren’t easy to forget.
    — Washington Post, 20 Aug. 2021
  • That’s kind of the whole point of All About Love, and the reason why so many of us have had such a visceral reaction to it.
    — Ineye Komonibo, refinery29.com, 28 Mar. 2023
  • The pain is visceral, and the loss of her more devastating.
    — Emma Austin, The Courier-Journal, 15 Sep. 2020
  • 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 surest way to elicit a visceral response was to make the actors, and the audience, sweat.
    — The New Yorker, 25 Aug. 2023
  • The passion for the many people that Thug cares for is real, deep, and visceral.
    — Jeff Ihaza, Rolling Stone, 16 May 2022
  • But more visceral is to see these shots up on walls, gracing the show’s clever settings.
    — Steve Johnson, chicagotribune.com, 5 Apr. 2018
  • Their reaction is very visceral, and that’s the best thing.
    — Anne Gelhaus, The Mercury News, 30 Mar. 2024
  • 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
  • The result is the buzzy, visceral, sweat-it-out music that no one else in the mainstream is making.
    — Mankaprr Conteh, Rolling Stone, 11 July 2024
  • 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
  • One of the big challenges was how to express war and epic battle, but still be real and raw and visceral.
    — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 4 Sep. 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
  • So, why did Whoopi have such a visceral reaction to Joy wearing a pair of jeans?
    — Adrianna Freedman, Good Housekeeping, 28 Sep. 2022
  • She’s certainly evoked one of the most visceral reactions from Emily in Paris fans.
    — Sophie Hanson, StyleCaster, 16 Sep. 2024
  • The moody and sparse production has air and space between deep bass beats and this was presented powerfully and clearly, with crisp highs, an effortless mid-range crisp and a low-end that was visceral, yet nuanced.
    — Benny Har-Even, Forbes, 12 Oct. 2024

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