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an urge to do or say something that might be better left undone or unsaid
he felt a compulsion to babble on about the accident
How To Use irresistible impulse In A Sentence
- And here, yielding to an irresistible impulse, I wrote my name upon the nose of a steatite monster from The Time Machine, by H. G. Wells
- His irresistible impulse to set fire to shoe shop.
- He felt an irresistible impulse to rush into the room.
- At one time it was assumed that there was a mental disorder known as pyromania; the pyromaniac was one with an irresistible impulse to light incendiary fires. The Sexual Life of the Child
- He felt an irresistible impulse to rush into the room.
- He felt an irresistible impulse to jump.
- I had an almost irresistible impulse to giggle.
- A blind and irresistible impulse urges you to make a commitment in a personal relationship and take a quantum leap into unknown territory.
- Faced with irresistible impulse, he says, we can choose to resist it.
- He felt an irresistible impulse to jump.