- plural of impulse.
impulses
Example Sentences
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But if you’re honest, you also loved watching the guy dumb enough to buy it fume over the futility of his impulses.
From Salon ● Aug. 6, 2026
But it’s also a story about, say, how a creature’s loneliness might make him greedy and petulant, and how sometimes the best solution is to feed someone’s heart as opposed to their impulses.
From Salon ● Jul. 8, 2026
Here, she discusses greedy women, cold mothers and her own tradwife impulses.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 8, 2026
"The US president has strong impulses that are not always easy to explain in terms of grand strategy," Clary says.
From BBC ● May 7, 2026
He lay in bed, only a few seconds from deep sleep, caught in a deadlock of impulses, unable to rise to the land of the living.
From "Native Son" by Richard Wright
