Example sentences for: instinctive

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

  • In European countries, the instinctive reply is "the government."

  • The instinctive response of most educated people to the disappearance of any taboo is to applaud it, but this is wrong.

  • It should also put us on our guard about a man who, if he is a liberal at all, is a liberal of an odd sort: One with no instinctive regard for civil liberties or the Bill of Rights.

  • More perversely, we also expect social equality--nobody is better than anyone else, we all play by the same rules--when the characteristic of previous human society has been the instinctive ranking by status.

  • But perhaps there will be a rethinking of the word communication and an instinctive scintilla of caution when communicating outside one's social group.


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