Example sentences for: impulse

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

  • (It has to be difficult resisting those impulse purchases of new Porsches when you're able to say to yourself: "What the hell, I made $4 billion last week.

  • And while Dunlap seems to harbor no trace of self-doubt, the impulse to quiet these critics must have been fairly strong.

  • Note its ingeniousness: To repress the powerful polygamous impulse in men, you employ their equally powerful thirst for social status.

  • The impulse is partly commercial, partly sentimental, partly a wish to uncover just one more unsuspected gem.

  • When I read a sentence about Tom Hanks like "Wherever he goes, a treacly, white-guy triumphalism seems to follow," I wonder what impulse causes you to add the words "white guy" to the sentence.


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