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Example sentences for: instinct

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

The President told us his instinct was to project calm, not to have the country see an excited reaction at a moment of crisis.
It seems to me that the instinct for survival plays as much a role in the trust or distrust among the races as genetics.
Since the mid-1980s, Eszterhas has been churning out more or less identical genre pictures: Jagged Edge (1985), Betrayed (1988), Basic Instinct (1992), Sliver (1993), Jade (1995) . Basic plot: Hero/heroine falls for weirdo.
Only by understanding the alien being, and feeling unthreatened by its presence, will the instinct to control it be neutralized.
Love of the Soviet Union was his first instinct, and when he evolved a second, more critical instinct, it was only because the Soviet leaders turned out to be less rigidly Marxist-Leninist and less suicidal than himself.