Example sentences for: instinctive

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

  • The instinctive response of most educated people to the disappearance of any taboo is to applaud it, but this is wrong.

  • More perversely, we also expect social equality--nobody is better than anyone else, we all play by the same rules--when the characteristic of previous human society has been the instinctive ranking by status.

  • Sometimes the author himself seems to float upward on a gust of wind, into the airy zones of fable, which seem to have been his instinctive home.

  • Might prejudice--the hatred between the Rattlers and the Eagles, the Klees depriving the Kandinskys, the surgical residents' disdain for meddies--be instinctive too?

  • In European countries, the instinctive reply is "the government."


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