Example sentences for: impulses

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

  • That will require suppressing the very impulses that Clinton himself has so conspicuously failed to control.

  • He can't control his impulses, especially the libidinal ones; he has an unattractive tendency to blame other people for his problems; he has a terrifyingly effective gift for misleading and, occasionally, telling outright lies.

  • On Mount Olympus they must be laughing at Bill Clinton's pleas for privacy, and at our attempts to explain his impulses.

  • The entire '60s thing was a product of an information revolution--one that initially empowered everyday people to personalize their media diet, eroding the principle of mass experiences through media, and enhancing tribal impulses to identify with your clique.

  • Ev psych insists, rightly, that we not ignore our similarities to the higher- and lower-order creatures, but it's weak on subjectivity, self-awareness, self-consciousness, whatever you want to call it--on how we explain our tangled mass of hormonal impulses to ourselves.


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