How to Use left brain in a Sentence

left brain

noun
  • The thoughts come quickly as the right brain and left brain begin to interact.
    Ira Gostin, Forbes, 8 Nov. 2021
  • In this scenario, fashion is the left brain to the also intangible right-brain world of the web.
    Vogue, 23 May 2022
  • In Alzheimer's, something goes wrong and leaves brain cells with these chunks of tau and amyloid that further damage or choke them.
    Kenneth S. Kosik, Scientific American, 20 Apr. 2020
  • Maes is believed to have been left brain dead after the suicide attempt, the Republic reports.
    Kc Baker, PEOPLE.com, 23 Feb. 2021
  • Jenny Arden talks about her career in design as straddling two very distinct sides of the same coin: left brain and right, business and design.
    Nicole Gull McElroy, Fortune, 1 Mar. 2022
  • Willey was left brain dead after the confrontation and was taken off life support three days after the shooting.
    Washington Post, 26 Mar. 2018
  • Willey was left brain-dead after a 17-year-old classmate shot her in the head minutes before class started at Great Mills on Tuesday morning.
    Talia Richman, baltimoresun.com, 26 Mar. 2018
  • Thompson was left brain damaged in the crash, but eventually recovered and re-enlisted in the army.
    Richard Newby, The Hollywood Reporter, 31 May 2018
  • In the tape, Wright said, jurors would also be able to hear Penn begin to fatally beat Power with the blunt handle of his gun, leaving brain matter throughout the gruesome scene.
    Jared Boyd, AL.com, 20 Dec. 2017
  • Several people were wounded in the attack and one person was left brain-dead, according to the Paris prosecutor’s office.
    Noemie Bisserbe, WSJ, 13 Dec. 2018
  • The family of an 18-year-old mother who was left brain-dead after she was shot by a Long Beach school safety officer said she would be taken off life support in the next few days and called for the officer to be criminally charged in the case.
    Justin Ray, Los Angeles Times, 5 Oct. 2021
  • User friendly depends on personalities, habits, left brain, right brain and other impossible-to-quantify factors.
    Gene Marks, Forbes, 22 Apr. 2022
  • Become a prolific producer by observing with intention, never being found without a notebook, working your ideas muscle, batching any left brain tasks and firmly establishing a practice.
    Jodie Cook, Forbes, 1 Sep. 2021
  • The left brain leverages our logical, analytical, intellectual and intuitive decisions and, ultimately, actions that lead to specific outcomes.
    Izabela Lundberg, Forbes, 8 Oct. 2021

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