instinct

Example Sentences

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If only they’d heeded their instinct to keep quiet.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 26, 2026

There isn’t anywhere else that one can walk into and immediately satisfy the social instinct among a convivial and refreshingly diverse clientele in what is becoming an increasingly homogenized locality.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 26, 2026

I fell for it outside of hummus in a tahini-miso ranch from Bon Appétit that I now make on instinct, and since then, it’s found its way into everything.

From Salon • Mar. 25, 2026

He said: "My first instinct is that it's a hoax message or she'd been hacked."

From BBC • Mar. 24, 2026

If there be anything behind this instinct it will be valuable to trace it afterwards accurately, so I had better commence to do so, therefore—

From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker