instinctive

Example Sentences

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“My refusal was instinctive; as a writer I did not want to take an award from the state,” he wrote in an essay for the Sunday Times of London.

From Washington Post

The Washington Post’s Henry Mitchell also dispensed with the idea of instinctive horticultural insight.

From Washington Post

Children as young as five years old have shown some instinctive ability to differentiate between the three and associate them with the dogs' inner states.

From Salon

Human beings feel an instinctive bond with canines that goes back to the prehistoric era, and which has been quantified by scientists in numerous ways.

From Salon

Most animals have a mix of instinctive behavior, which arises from their genetic programming, and social behavior, which are learned from their parents and, in the case of social animals, their pack or group.

From Scientific American