Example sentences for: impulses

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

  • From the start, Brooks' impulses have taken him to the source of his darkest anxieties.

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

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.


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