impulses

Example Sentences

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There are more impulses and ideas than can be dramatically metabolized.

From Los Angeles Times • May 1, 2026

Are we still deserving of kindness when someone knows our darkest, most cruel impulses?

From Salon • Apr. 3, 2026

Thompson was part of the wave of artists in the 1950s who explored the darker, deviant impulses of American life.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 2, 2026

“In the near term, there are some inflationary impulses from the rise in oil prices over the last couple of months,” Angelo Kourkafas, senior global investment strategist at Edward Jones, said in an interview Monday.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 2, 2026

That was the way he lived; he passed his days trying to defeat or gratify powerful impulses in a world he feared.

From "Native Son" by Richard Wright