impulse
Example Sentences
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And yet, not long ago, I felt the sudden impulse to tattoo her name on my arm.
From Los Angeles Times • May 12, 2026
Future work may help clarify how genetics, development, life experiences, and environment interact to shape the brain systems involved in reward-seeking, impulse control, and antisocial behavior.
From Science Daily • May 10, 2026
An omen among omens: Mid-dog-walk that day, I spot a onesie that reads “Milk Drunk” and shudder at the impulse to recruit our newborns into low-key bacchanalia.
From Slate • May 10, 2026
“There has been enough of an inflationary impulse in the system to have closed the window for central banks to simply look through the shock,” said Paul Hollingsworth, an economist at BNP Paribas.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 30, 2026
On impulse I told the pastor to wait and ran upstairs.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
Vocabulary lists containing impulse
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"The Story of an Hour" by Kate Chopin
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