impulse

Example Sentences

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“Deliberation tempers impulse, and compromise hammers disagreements into workable solutions,” he writes.

From The Wall Street Journal

It will be more orderly and less chaotic, less driven by impulse and vendetta, more discriminating between allies and adversaries.

From The Wall Street Journal

This ion movement generates electrical signals, including the nerve impulses responsible for muscle contraction.

From Science Daily

Accompanied by that natural impulse and the president’s blessing, Kennedy has indeed gone wild in office.

From Salon

But the impulses it revealed are now the dominant mode of our online existence.

From Salon