Example sentences for: instinct

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

  • Most travellers have a keen instinct for survival when it comes to flying and BA's traditional image helped to underline its reputation for reliability," said a Sunday Times editorial.

  • Only by understanding the alien being, and feeling unthreatened by its presence, will the instinct to control it be neutralized.

  • Anyway, Instinct is built around that theater standby, the series of charged encounters between a psychiatrist and a shackled patient, during which it dawns on the doctor (Cuba Gooding Jr.) that he and his society are the ones who are actually in need of curing.

  • Night has fallen, and Mischief opts for flinty grays and blacks, the city-slickness and palpable sexuality of Cronenberg's Crash and Verhoeven's Basic Instinct . Clever camera work tilts the asphalt, giving the spot some depth and visual interest.

  • "The passing from the state of nature to the civil society," he wrote, "produces a remarkable change in man; it puts justice as a rule of conduct in the place of instinct, and gives his actions the moral quality they previously lacked."


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