How To Use Instinctive In A Sentence

A lot of human nature can be traced to instinctive behaviors evolved in harder times. ProWomanProLife » Why am I so skeptical?
Instinctively they turned their back on the farce staged by the trade unions.
Cooper felt herself instinctively bristle at Sasha's use of the nickname she hated. CIRCLE OF THREE: BOOK 6: RING OF LIGHT
Instinctively, Hunter tried to field the ball barehanded - an unfortunate decision, as it turned out - and incurred a hairline fracture to his right thumb.
It was not that her parents ever articulated this sentiment, it was something she instinctively knew. SEA MUSIC

Learning Although some of our behaviour is based on reflex and instinctive reactions, most of our behaviour is learned. Personnel Management: A New Approach
The result is that caution and political immobilism have now become instinctive.
It is an instinctive action on the part of the dog and it applies equally to the domestic situation. THE DOG LISTENER: Learning the Language of your Best Friend
Practise and soon you will find that you can spot the keywords instinctively and make sense out of them, and your reading speed increases manyfold.
There are no painted signs to repel native beachcombers and yet it seems the indigenous people know instinctively where to tread, where not to go.
For the less instinctively integrationist countries, and in particular Britain, this was all too far and too fast. Zero-Sum Future
Space allowances should permit natural movement and exercise, and the environment should allow animals to perform instinctive behaviours, such as rooting by pigs.
How much better, then, if most of the choices we make could be instinctive ones. Times, Sunday Times
Instinctively we knew they were hormonally driven and yet only then did the penny drop. Times, Sunday Times
He fought to control the instinctive curl of his lip.
For a man, sex instinctively is a testosterone drive toward the ultimate release of climax.
Instinctively she had flinched, hating the delay, despite his promise to go on Thursday or Friday. FINAL RESORT
But his allies insist he is an instinctive Eurosceptic who is simply taking a pragmatic approach. Times, Sunday Times
We should not confound uncharity with a sort of natural repugnance and antipathy, instinctive to some natures, betraying a weakness of character, if you will, but hardly what one could call a clearly defined fault. Explanation of Catholic Morals A Concise, Reasoned, and Popular Exposition of Catholic Morals
The plain was as flat as a tabletop, and she instinctively felt exposed and vulnerable, there being no possible way to conceal one's presence.
Ashwood instinctively tossed the cigarette to the ground ignoring the sizzle as it landed in a puddle at his feet.
Because you've an instinctive understanding of others, you rarely judge anybody. Times, Sunday Times
Instinctive acceptance of a corporate identity for this constituency forced the party into an integrative role on two distinct but related fronts.
People's sense of their cultural roots - a recognition of a place having a strong patina of age and strong local identity - is often instinctive.
It is an instinctive split-second reaction to a fluid rugby situation. Times, Sunday Times
She observed that my eyes were upon her, and in an act of instinctive maidenliness she bore her hand to her throat to draw the draperies together and screen the beauties of her neck from my unwarranted glance, as though her daily gown did not reveal as much and more of them. Bardelys the Magnificent; being an account of the strange wooing pursued by the Sieur Marcel de Saint-Pol, marquis of Bardelys...
Some instinctive appreciation of this fact may have given rise to the mystique which surrounded ￡40 a year in contemporary culture.
Just mention "Upper Churchill" and instinctively people know the code word for "give-away". Archive 2006-04-01
Your intelligence tells you that such a process is not abstract reasoning, and your homocentric thesis compels you to conclude that it can be only a mechanical, instinctive process. The Other Animals
With so few politicians having worked in research, few of them instinctively grasp the intricacies of the system 's reliance on this sort of serendipity. Times, Sunday Times
Everything was happening too fast...' Her thumbnail was at her mouth in an instinctive gesture. A WORM OF DOUBT
Instinctively I pulled Danny into my arms and held him close.
Maidens with water-jars on their heads which might have been dug up at Pompeii; priests with broad hats and huge cloaks; sailors with blue shirts and red girdles; urchins who almost instinctively cry for a "soldo" and break into the Tarantella if you look at them; quiet, grave, farmer-peasants with the Phrygian cap; coral-fishers fresh from the African coast with tales of storm and tempest and the Madonna's help -- make up group after group of Caprese life as one looks idly on, a life not specially truthful perhaps or moral or high-minded, but sunny and pleasant and pretty enough, and harmonizing in its own genial way with the sunshine and beauty around. Stray Studies from England and Italy
We probably falter unless our choices instinctively prove inherent qualities, be they serious or flippant.
There is a lot to be said for staying power, a rare commodity in our plastic, disposable world but one that we instinctively value. Times, Sunday Times
Instinctively Loretta stooped down to pick it up.
My hands commenced a series of tasks they knew instinctively: reseating the refueling probe, putting the flaps in “auto,” turning the expendables on, calling up the targeting pod, selecting the gun, slewing the pod toward the target area. A Nightmare’s Prayer
He was instinctive with his goal but before that, his lack of speed and movement encouraged a ponderous build-up. Times, Sunday Times
he instinctively grabbed the knife
It includes innate male aggression and, as recognised by some ethologists, an emphasis on instinctive territoriality.
And that starts with introducing the mass of Canadian voters to human rights commissions, and introducing them in a manner that demonstrates the abnormalcy of these commissions -- how they fly in the face of our instinctive Canadian notions of justice, fair play, freedoms, pluralism, etc. Ezra Levant: May 2008 Archives
It's a strange, instinctive understanding of human behaviour that can be quite manipulative. Times, Sunday Times
Some say only humans are conscious and animals are instinctive and machinelike.
Our concern here is to emphasize the billions of small wrangles that were altering the collective thought, to summon out of the past, for an instant, an elfin clamour of now silenced voices that prepared the soil for revolution, the not-at-all-lucid propagandists at street corners, the speakers in little meeting-houses, in open spaces and during work intermissions; to recall the rustle of queer newspapers that were not quite ordinary newspapers; and the handicapped book publications that were everywhere fighting traditional and instinctive resistances. The Shape of Things to Come
I am, however, relieved to say that I do not instinctively want to protect and cherish her.
It was merely a gauche expression of a feeling of ownership, a childlike discovery of proprietary rights where the immediate and instinctive reaction is to take the toy apart.
Like all his kind, the AAnn exoarcheologist displayed an instinctive feel for the makeup of the ground. Diuturnity's Dawn
Instinctively Lee levels his rifle at the three enemy soldiers and orders them to leave or he will shoot.
But I knew that there was a certain 'something' which I wished to add to my violinistic make-up, and instinctively felt that he alone could give me what I wanted. Violin Mastery Talks with Master Violinists and Teachers
It is an instinctive split-second reaction to a fluid rugby situation. Times, Sunday Times
Amazons in particular, often become junk-food junkies, almost instinctively recognizing potato chip bags and pizza boxes.
Colonel Boucher singing the bass of "A few more years shall roll," felt his mind instinctively wandering to the cock-fight the evening before, and depressedly recollecting that a considerable number of years had rolled already. Queen Lucia
The ersatz emotions that crawl out of the woodwork with every hit make me instinctively reach for the bug spray.
Your daughter appears to have instinctively created a bardo world for your father. Jesus In The Sky With Dinosaurs | Her Bad Mother
A winger to me is a striker, a finisher, an out-and-out attacker with an aggressive and instinctive nose for the try-line.
He tried to get away from the feeling, to isolate and exteriorize it sufficiently to see what motives it was made of; but it remained a mere blind motion of his blood, the instinctive recoil from the thing that no amount of arguing can make The Reef
Instinctively, she turned her head to keep watch out of the lattice window as she'd done all those years ago. THE BOOK LADY
Every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action. James Russell Lowell
But people instinctively sense that there is something essentially rotten with City and executive pay. Times, Sunday Times
Instinctively the kid jumps to his feet, water dripping from his face, and puts up his gloved fists.
Would you be an instinctive soldier, a brilliant commander, or a grunt?
He had an instinctive knowledge of the area and its people and a great ‘feel’ for country life.
She or he needs an instinctive sense of where lines should end, how end-stopped they might be, and which ones call for enjambment, their sense flowing lyrically over the tiny pause and into a line that follows.
Cat felt a flutter in the pit of her stomach and instinctively pulled her leg away.
Without a word being said, we gravitate to the middle of the square - some 300 soldiers who instinctively feel the need to daven together.
Jaq suspected that their recycling and export trade had practically become instinctive.
We knew instinctively that anyone wearing a tweed jacket with leather elbow patches was a history teacher and those wearing ponchos were over-zealous social workers.
Ben instinctively yanked it back, but his eardrum felt punctured. Shore Thing
In that sense I believe everyone knows a lot about art instinctively, and that's why all my work is untitled and there's no artist's statement.
Yet the aid package passed in an instinctively isolationist Congress with only a modest handful of dissenters.
He has always acted as sovereign instinctively; he was so as a private individual and clubbist; he is not to cease being so, now that he possesses legal authority, and all the more because if he hesitates he knows he is lost; to save himself from the scaffold he has no refuge but in a dictatorship. The French Revolution - Volume 3
It's a strange, instinctive understanding of human behaviour that can be quite manipulative. Times, Sunday Times
Although he shared the Grierson gang's instinctive leftism, he was never quite trusted by them.
Instinctively he hung back in the shelter of a rock.
Ehomba ducked instinctively and the blast of luminescent diablerie passed over his left shoulder to strike the center of the dying campfire. Carnivores of Light and Darkness
Bennett gets open because he is instinctive, makes good decisions and runs great routes.
Pipe is immensely likeable yet instinctively quiet. Times, Sunday Times
I know it instinctively, and often feel a sense of peace when people receive Communion.
It is an intuitive and instinctive art that does not need school tutoring.
The animals are like burglars in that they will get into a house if they can but at least their actions are instinctive, not malicious. The Sun
Brian felt it the moment he entered the city limits - a sudden primeval chill, an instinctive animal watchfulness.
Gerard and I are both aware that the younger you start with children, the more likely they are going to be instinctive bilinguals.
Pukulin instinctively kicked at the loose cables, his boots pushing them apart. 365 tomorrows » 2007 » August : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day
You felt instinctively as if something terrible had happened here: that the tribesmen had crucified the station master perhaps, or garroted the ticket collector.
Almost instinctively, people worried that so outstanding a year might tempt Helen to switch at once to the professional circuit.
Users may not instinctively know what the slider is for - although Apple, in OS X omit icons on the 'Finder' zoom slider. Archive 2010-01-01
The Kolbe," as it is casually known, measures what she refers to as an instinctive modus operandi, or conative skills, the traits each of us is born with. Kansas City Star: Front Page
The group began a series of training dives and re-equipped themselves with identical equipment so that in any emergency they would instinctively and immediately know exactly what to do and where to find things.
At times, these internal or external stimuli affecting an animal's instinctive impulses result in cases of animal "filicide," "cannibalism" and "homosexuality. THE MEDICAL NEWS
The striker's flick was instinctive and accurate enough to demand a goal-line clearance.
In my judgment, the exception and reservation was probably an instinctive reaction of a conveyancer who was providing for the transfer of one part of a site, the remainder of which was being retained by the vendor.
Instinctively, she turned her head to keep watch out of the lattice window as she'd done all those years ago. THE BOOK LADY
Instinctively she lifted her head, and their lips met, softly at first, tasting and questing.
The instinctive ones are the men who control shape and win games. Times, Sunday Times
Although there was still a way to go, he began instinctively to search for the turning which led to the track running from the road to the house.
The backwash of my command as they instinctively repulsed it giddied me, but I recovered faster than they did. THE GOLDEN FOOL: BOOK TWO OF THE TAWNY MAN
Cooper felt herself instinctively bristle at Sasha's use of the nickname she hated. CIRCLE OF THREE: BOOK 6: RING OF LIGHT
If you instinctively interpret that sentence as a reference to the battle-scarred topic of climate change, then it is a mark of how successfully those opposed to the scientific consensus on climate change have appropriated the term sceptic ". army of Freedom of Information requesters currently swarming around climate science databases? Blogposts | guardian.co.uk
My spirit apprehends instinctively the right and the true; and through life I have relied on intuitions; which some have called a rashness, recommending colder cautions; but these latter have seldom paid their way. My Life as an Author
The situation instinctively reminds one of the play An Enemy of the People by the Norwegian dramatist Henrik Ibsen.
The first meal we eat is the one where we are instinctively most resistant to innovation. Times, Sunday Times
Like the daimon of Socrates who indicates only what not to do, we too know instinctively, aesthetically, when a fish stinks, when the sense of beauty is offended.
His iron public spirit, his inevitable devotion to duty, unconscious and instinctive and uncensorious, combined with a guilty sense that her youth and beauty had been uprooted by him, and put into a dusty distant soil. Balloons
His hand went instinctively to the cup holder, retrieving his raveled up fabric belt and tying it about his waist.
Yet the aid package passed in an instinctively isolationist Congress with only a modest handful of dissenters.
I instantly panicked, clumsily splashing and flailing about as I instinctively fought to keep myself afloat.
October 16th, 2007 at 2: 43 pm chodin says: true story: i get in to work last week and i sit down at my desk. i open up my internet and i go type in the address to a website, andÃ ‚ Âinstinctively i type in milfhunter.com. oh man, i had a good laugh with myself that day. and by "good laugh", i mean "nice time masturbating". ‘UNTRACEABLE’: EVEN MORE COLIN HANKS!
That, alone, which has to be guarded against is the falsity, the instinctive duplicity which _would fain_ regard this antithesis as no antithesis at all: just as Wagner did, — and his mastery in this kind of falseness was of no mean order. The Case Of Wagner, Nietzsche Contra Wagner, and Selected Aphorisms.
Nevertheless, the instinctive part of me -- that part of us which refuses to fraternize with reason, and which we call the superstitious because we cannot explain it -- would not let go the spiritualistic theory, and during all my life has never quite surrendered it to the attacks of my brain. Sacred and Profane Love
It includes innate male aggression and, as recognised by some ethologists, an emphasis on instinctive territoriality.
Instinctively, he put his hand out to get the coxswain to slow down. FLASH POINT
Czech players were once legendary for their instinctive musicianship, most notably the fiddlers.
I'm drawn instinctively to heavy food and I love red food because it's the colour of my rage.
Our instinctive reaction when someone causes us pain is to strike back.
Perhaps his lifelong constraint towards women, which he had attributed to accident, was not chance after all, but the natural result of instinctive acts so minute as to be undiscernible even by himself. A Pair of Blue Eyes
Just as little girls, instinctively foreshadowing motherhood, play with dolls, so children feel vague sex promptings, and in sweetly ridiculous ways love and quarrel and make up after the approved fashion of lovers. The Kempton-Wace Letters
Both guards instinctively dropped to the ground and rolled towards the walls.
The left has an instinctive disposition to side with the people.
But I've always felt instinctively that music had this numinous quality.
Children in primary school playgrounds clearly demonstrate an instinctive pleasure in rhythm, pattern and rhyme.
Capitalists resisted, which was an instinctive response, but also a rational one.
As simplistic as this may sound, she instinctively understands the power of compound interest.
Brian felt it the moment he entered the city limits - a sudden primeval chill, an instinctive animal watchfulness.
A brilliantly instinctive, one-handed catch at first slip was particularly memorable. Times, Sunday Times
His behaviour seems instinctive, with no more reasoning than that of a hound coursing a hare. Times, Sunday Times
He relies on an instinctive sense of who is good and who is bad overseas?
He was gifted when it came to matters relating to the soil and livestock and his instinctive knowledge was always put to good use.
Every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action. James Russell Lowell
But his allies insist he is an instinctive Eurosceptic who is simply taking a pragmatic approach. Times, Sunday Times
No creature ever deviates from its instinctive mental programming.
Almost instinctively the parents drew into a tight group, moving to a safe distance, eight pairs of eyes fastening their gaze on the deck.
I think that for a lot of people on the transition, the instinctive response to this is going to be to cause people to flinch from the idea of a serious effort at peacemaking. Matthew Yglesias » The Test
No sign has a more instinctive understanding of what makes others tick than Aquarius. Times, Sunday Times
Scientists report that even hatching cobras, such as this red Mozambique cobra, instinctively aim and spit at a perceived predator's eyes.
Our instinctive reaction when someone causes us pain is to strike back.
But that didn't work - I instinctively chose the gobby lunatics, with the intention of making myself feel moderate, sensible and lovely.
Here was no streak of fat, no apathy, only a lazy, good-natured play of gloves and tricks, with a brusk stiffness and harsh sharpness in the contacts that he knew belonged only to the trained and instinctive fighting man. Chapter II
Instinctively, he kicked out at the man with the bottle and then a full scale fight erupted in the bar.
I should think it did," Kendal replied; and then their eyes met, and they laughed the healthy instinctive laugh of youth when it is asked to mourn fatuously, which is always a little cruel. A Daughter of To-Day
Brian felt it the moment he entered the city limits - a sudden primeval chill, an instinctive animal watchfulness.
They filled in some of the gaps in his knowledge and confirmed most of his instinctive judgments. Truman
He is instinctively suspicious and graceless even in a determinedly soft interview.
You are a good cousin to feel the instinctive sympathy to write with love and condolences. Times, Sunday Times
Instinctively her hand squeezes back but she doesn't stir from her peaceful slumber.
The Marines instinctively opened fire on the troopers, but all their bullets just bounced off the armor.
I ticked his name instinctively but before clicking in my selection, I just thought "let me have a look at the other ten players" and I realised that six bowlers is definitely too many. Cricket Web - Latest News
Indeed, it turns out to be precisely this kind of instinctive drivenness that Nietzsche has partly in mind when he praises Nietzsche's Moral and Political Philosophy
The strength of religion lies in its moral doctrines that are compatible with the instinctive feelings of the human heart. Believers or non- believers are all blessed with this kind of human feelings – a part of human nature. Dr T.P.Chia
Eventhen I had an instinctive revulsion toward men who start everything andnever carry anything out These jacks-of-all-trades were loathsome to me. Mein Kampf
You get the right balance between practical facts and instinctive feelings, which leads to good choices. The Sun
Learning Although some of our behaviour is based on reflex and instinctive reactions, most of our behaviour is learned. Personnel Management: A New Approach
The gym was often almost empty when Christopher was there, and perhaps Pilates knew instinctively that Christopher would be a suitable audience for his exhibitionism.
offering to help was as instinctive as breathing
Baslan, her face coloring to a pale grape, took it with an instinctive dip of her hand. DEAD LINES
His stolid instinctive conservatism grovels before the tyrant rule of routine, despite that turbulent and licentious independence which ever suggests revolt against the ruler: his mental torpidity, founded upon physical indolence, renders immediate action and all manner of exertion distasteful: his conscious weakness shows itself in overweening arrogance and intolerance. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
She had been out-manoeuvred and out-run, to say nothing of her having been unceremoniously tumbled in the gravel, and her arrival was like that of a tornado — made up of offended dignity, justifiable wrath, and instinctive hatred for this marauder from the Wild. The Southland
But he struggled instinctively like an animal under a net, and this blind struggle threw him out into a field.
In that sense, and except towards the end of her long tenure of office, she was always instinctively cautious. Times, Sunday Times
But at the same time she had a sincere, kindly and generous nature to which I instinctively warmed.
As he leaned towards her she instinctively recoiled.
He embarks on his course of inquiry with an anarchist's instinctive mistrust of power.
But this elegant girl, educated by governesses and teachers, was a stranger to them; they could not understand her, and they instinctively kept closer to "Auntie," who called them by their names, continually pressed them to eat and drink, and, clinking glasses with them, had already drunk two wineglasses of rowanberry wine with them. The Party
This whole episode, the instinctive rush to Paris, the solitary waiting, has been nothing more than an exercise in fond self-gratification. LOVE YOU MADLY
In doing this he trusted solely to 'instinctive guidance, ' as he called it, and not to any hints or clews obtained through the senses.
You get the right balance between practical facts and instinctive feelings, which leads to good choices. The Sun
My hands commenced a series of tasks they knew instinctively: reseating the refueling probe, putting the flaps in “auto,” turning the expendables on, calling up the targeting pod, selecting the gun, slewing the pod toward the target area. A Nightmare’s Prayer
Instinctively one would have called him "Professor", though whether naturalist, geologist, or plain "bugologist", one would have had difficulty in determining. The Romance of Elaine Sequel to "Exploits of Elaine"
You are a good cousin to feel the instinctive sympathy to write with love and condolences. Times, Sunday Times
His instinctive, hand-held camerawork complements the naturalistic performances perfectly. Times, Sunday Times
She uses this folk tale to take an unflinching look at the domain of the deep instinctive self. Times, Sunday Times
Set aside for a moment your instinctive dislike of the man.
Afraid the soldiers had seen the package, Ian ducked down instinctively, but the aircraft banked steeply and slid down into the valley.
Every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action. James Russell Lowell
He was an instinctive, thoroughbred talent who never had to worry about tactics or movement since it came naturally to him.
He tried to get away from the feeling, to isolate and exteriorize it sufficiently to see what motives it was made of; but it remained a mere blind motion of his blood, the instinctive recoil from the thing that no amount of arguing can make "straight. The Reef; a novel
She explains that the animals instinctively know when the tide is ebbing, and thus when to come down to the shore to graze.
It's as if gay men represent something so primally unsettling, so disconcerting on some primordial, preverbal level, that violence becomes, for some heterosexual men, the instinctive response.
That instinctive religious action captured the paradox of our unpredictable friendship, born in battle in four public debates -- stretching from 2004 until 2010 -- on G-d, faith, evolution, and religion, but solidified over food at kosher restaurants, kosher wines, and, of course, healthy swigs of whiskey. Rabbi Shmuley Boteach: Christopher Hitchens and the Fall of a Worthy Adversary
Everything was happening too fast...' Her thumbnail was at her mouth in an instinctive gesture. A WORM OF DOUBT
However, Cash had a deeply serious core and in between the jags on booze and pills, which went on well into his middle life, he tried to do some good… in an instinctively rebellious way.
Long-term injury to Garry O'Connor robbed them of one of Scottish football's most instinctive finishers.
The claim that it will never work is instinctively disbelieved by nearly everyone; most people believe, correctly, that engineers can do pretty much anything.
Your companions, too, are safely domiciled inside their own caverns, to which your wearable anti-avalanche home plugs in instinctively with filamental tunnels. Archive 2007-11-01
He was an astute politician, instinctively knowing how to exploit popular feelings for his own advantage.
He is shamefast and bashful with those who surround him and wishes not to be discovered by them, just as one instinctively avoids all lavish display of comfort or wealth in the presence of a poor friend. Thus spake Zarathustra; A book for all and none
She was bending eagerly over the woman to hear her reply; but drew back, instinctively, as she once again rose, slowly and stiffly, into a sitting posture; then, clutching the coverlid with both hands, muttered some indistinct sounds in her throat, and fell lifeless on the bed. Oliver Twist
I hope I have enough self-knowledge to recognise that mine is the instinctive response of someone trying not to be seduced. Restaurant review: the Kingham Plough
You've got an instinctive feeling that things will go well for you. The Sun
Gone is the instinctive forward who needed just half a yard to inflict total damage while at Liverpool. Times, Sunday Times
We have a little bit of an instinctive understanding. Times, Sunday Times
She tensed on the threshold to the sitting - room, her eyes going instinctively and betrayingly to the Knole settee. Yesterday's Echoes
This had acted as Islam acts everywhere, as a very strong social bond, uniting the vast majority of subjects in all districts except certain parts of the European empire, in instinctive loyalty to the person of the padishah, whatever might be felt about his government. The Balkans A History of Bulgaria—Serbia—Greece—Rumania—Turkey
The question turns upon how much violence is done to our instinctive feelings of justice and fair play.
In Darwin's apt phrase, the ability of humans to learn language is ‘an instinctive tendency to acquire an art’.
His was a wise and instinctive temperateness that savored of the WHEN GOD LAUGHS
They grow faster than beanstalks and instinctively they will incline toward the light.
The union overcomes this instinctive knowledge by convincing teachers that they in fact have no capacity to teach.
Even the most instinctively bellicose warily warn of making matters worse.
Children in primary school playgrounds clearly demonstrate an instinctive pleasure in rhythm, pattern and rhyme.
The dole, in other words, was counterproductive; it tended to “impair that anxiety for a livelihood which is almost instinctive”; giving out money could “relax individual exertion by unnerving the arm of industry.” A History of American Law

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