Example sentences for: instinctive

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

  • That instinctive sense is the best guide we have to economic policy in every sphere.

  • I've always felt that a chief cause of racial strife is that on a primal, instinctive level, we distrust something new or different from what we know.

  • According to the great Danish linguist, Otto Jespersen, there are five theories to account for the origin of language: the bow-wow theory, in which speech imitated animal calls; the pooh-pooh theory, in which people made instinctive sounds through physical or emotional reactions; the dingdong theory, in which people reacted to the environment; the yo-he-ho theory, in which people spoke when working together; and the la-la theory, in which speech arose from the romantic side of life.

  • In an influential 1995 paper, the social psychologists Roy Baumeister and Mark Leary reviewed all such studies and concluded that we have an instinctive "need to belong."

  • Sometimes the author himself seems to float upward on a gust of wind, into the airy zones of fable, which seem to have been his instinctive home.


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