Sample Sentences for
visceral
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(editor-reviewed)

visceral as in:  a visceral reaction

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I had a visceral reaction when I saw the gruesome video.
visceral = strong (felt in the gut)
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    His stories are vivid and visceral.
    visceral = felt strongly (creating a gut-reaction)
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    Simulations aren't real; they pose no real threat to me, so logically, I shouldn't be afraid of them, but my reaction is visceral.  (source)
    visceral = arising from instinct (felt in the gut)
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    My opposition was beyond rational, it was visceral.  (source)
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    The idea of something for nothing is appealing in some visceral way.†  (source)
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    Uncle Jimmy reacts viscerally to the idea that any of the blame for Mom's choices can be laid at Papaw's feet.†  (source)
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    A visceral urge to flee sweeps through me, so powerful that I slow, stop, pull away from the slaver.†  (source)
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    But he remembered it viscerally.†  (source)
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    They are visceral revelations about her pre-life.†  (source)
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    You hear stories about ancillaries, and it seems like the most awful thing, the most viscerally appalling thing the Radchaai have done.†  (source)
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    It was an immediate, visceral reaction that was paralyzing.†  (source)
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    During speeches to the Corps, the indisputable power of his own rhetoric would affect him so viscerally that he would dance along a thin, precarious edge of control in constant danger of plunging headlong into much darker and more radical passions.†  (source)
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    The cold water, hitting my sore throat, threw me into goosebumps and into a visceral bodily memory from boyhood: painful desert sunlight, painful afternoon hangover, teeth chattering in the air-conditioned chill.†  (source)
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    And the smell brought him hack so viscerally, to a time when she loved him—or he at least felt like she did—that his gut ached anew.†  (source)
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visceral as in:  visceral muscles

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A sedentary life has lead to excessive visceral fat.
visceral = around the internal organs
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    Shapes of dried blood in the stubble grass and gray coils of viscera where the slain had been field-dressed and hauled away.  (source)
    viscera = internal organs
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    It tried to twist away from the agony, a shower of blood and viscera poured down over Tyrion's face, and the horse fell like an avalanche.†  (source)
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    He moved past the toppled barstool where he had been seated a moment earlier, past the upended table splattered with the viscera of Safia Bourihane, and entered the foyer.†  (source)
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    Now the objects in the sky no longer reminded people of building blocks, but of a giant's dismembered limbs and disemboweled viscera.†  (source)
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    On a once living person, rather, for when the blood stopped flying and the body ceased spasming, Sira's limbs relaxed in death, legs opening again in an echo of the obscene display of viscera above.†  (source)
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    So skillful was she that it seemed Nacha herself was in Tita's body doing all those things: dry-plucking the birds, removing the viscera, getting them ready for frying.†  (source)
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    Seven men in the platoon had died on that occasion, and Kent had lowered himself into a foxhole and watched a Private Wiesner toss a grenade unsuccessfully toward a pillbox while at the same moment a stream of machine-gun fire caught Wiesner at the waist and forced his viscera out.†  (source)
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    Low, throaty female laughter, the kind that seems to vibrate in a fairy ring around the viscera and the genitals.†  (source)
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    He wanted so badly to have them back that the wanting tore like eagle's claws at his viscera.†  (source)
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    He was fond of suffocated guinea pig baked in its own blood and viscera.†  (source)
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    Something came to her viscera, danced briefly, and went.†  (source)
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    She stayed until Dr. Cuevas rinsed his hands in the sink and dried his tears, while the other one cleaned up the blood and the viscera.†  (source)
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    Enter unannounced, gain his confidence, wait for an unguarded moment, take out the Zumwalt, shoot him three times in the viscera for maximum slowness of agony, put the gun in his hand to suggest a lonely man's suicide, write semi-coherent things on the mirror, leave Stover's car in Treadwell's garage.†  (source)
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