How to Use visceral in a Sentence

visceral

adjective

• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• That visceral distrust makes people of color run and hide for their lives at the sight of police.
  — oregonlive, 17 Nov. 2020
• The scenes with Lee are less exciting, on a visceral level.
  — Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 Jan. 2023
• Our visceral attachment to the era goes way beyond a slip dress and combat boots.
  — Laird Borrelli-Persson, Vogue, 10 Sep. 2020
• For those who live in the crisis every day, these questions are visceral.
  — Campbell Robertson, New York Times, 11 Aug. 2022

Last Updated: 9 May 2024