Example sentences for: impulses

How can you use “impulses” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • An actor of stature might have bridged these two impulses, but the beautiful, brazenly slim-hipped Rhys-Meyers doesn't make his lines sound as if he's thinking them up on the spot, and Slade's self-destructive passion for Curt Wild (Ewan McGregor), the film's fuzzy, sweet Iggy Pop figure, seems less an emotional imperative than a thematic one.

  • I'm impressed that in 8MM he has managed to muzzle his fruitier impulses and work in a chill, stripped-down style, reverting to form only in the black leather porno basements and his characteristically semicoherent action scenes.

  • This used to drive me crazy about the Bush White House, when everyone was writing mistily about how deeply "Bar" cared about Head Start funding, and how she was secretly pro-abortion-rights, and how, in effect, she represented Bush's moderate domestic-policy impulses.

  • The ignoble impulses of both sexes are part of a complex mind that can often override them; and social arrangements, from individual marriages to entire legal systems, can change for the better.

  • There have always been, and always will be, maladjusted or deranged students who unleash those impulses.


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