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How to use the word instinct in a Sentence?

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There are seasons, in human affairs, of inward and outward revolution, when new depths seem to be broken up in the soul, when new wants are unfolded in multitudes, and a new and undefined good is thirsted for. There are periods when the principles of experience need to be modified, when hope and trust and instinct claim a share with prudence in the guidance of affairs when, in truth, to dare is the highest wisdom.

William Ellery Channing

added by JokerGem
8 months ago

Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd.

Bertrand Russell

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9 months ago

There is an understandable political instinct to alleviate the price because it directly addresses the cost concerns of households and businesses. But making gas cheaper removes the incentive to reduce overall consumption.

Milan Elkerbout

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Financial institutions are fully capable of learning their own history and understanding their own roles in past injustice, next, they must work to ensure that they counter contemporary wrongs and avoid the easier instinct to think of historical context as separate from current circumstances – and be held accountable in doing so by the federal government, by shareholders, and by customers.

Lily Roberts

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

They didn’t do their job. I believed the crowd was going to be bigger — just my instinct — and they had the chance to call up the National Guard three days before Jan. 6, and if they did, Jan. 6 would have been a very different day, but they didn’t do it.

Donald Trump

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

I had a dialogue with both [of them]. They both visited me here before the war. And I always believe that in dialogue we always move forward, you know who doesn't know how to talk? Animals. They are pure instinct.

No Pope

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Seconds later the ground just dropped, something that looked like a giant sinkhole, i saw two people ... two people were missing. One who we could not locate, and one could be seen among the rubbles from above. My first instinct was to try and get inside ... but there was no option to go inside. So they called the rescue services.

Aviv Bublil

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

I have appointed a new cabinet who will serve, as I will, until a new leader is in place, when the herd instinct moves, it moves.

Boris Johnson

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

We usually see things by eye... and feel the rest by imagination, illusion or instinct.

Clifford Villanueva Villalon

added by bspell925
1 year ago

We usually see things by eye... and feel the rest by imagination, illusion or instinct.

Clifford Villanueva Villalon

added by bspell925
1 year ago

All of this is really just the next stage in the left’s continual push to undo our entire understanding of childhood for the sake of political agendas, we’ve seen this for years, for instance in their push to emasculate our boys. Boys long to have something to fight for and defend, but are now told that this instinct is toxic. There are still dragons to slay, and we fail to communicate that to our boys.

Gina Ciarcia

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

I was able to get my hands on the ball, and at the end of the day, when you want to win, things just happen, that's just instinct talking.

Giannis Antetokounmpo

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

It was not a soundbite parenting experience. None of my parents had a lot of training to be parents themselves. They did the best they could, which was not good at all, when you have a parent who's nontraditional, chaos become part of the picture. But she was a great friend, she was a magnetic force. She may not have had the greatest maternal instinct but she had the ability to transcend any differences.

Renay Mandel Corren

Found on CNN
2 years ago

These men - ..., the politicians, ... - use their position, their knowledge, and their power of disseminating misinformation to arouse and stimulate the latent instinct for bloodshed. When they have succeeded, they say they are reluctantly forced to war by the pressure of public opinion.

Bertrand Russell

added by Normando
2 years ago

Donald Trump – his Big Lie has enveloped the Republican Party, and they run away from truth and honesty and fairness just to appease someone with a very authoritarian instinct.

Chuck Schumer

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

This tendency to hold on to the poorly performing securities can end up continuing to cost the investor, investors often make decisions based on gut instinct, but that can really lead them astray.

Lisa Kramer

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I was so impressed with the deputy that showed up on the scene because Carole Baskin did exactly the right thing. And he showed amazing restraint in not shooting that tiger, he kept eye contact. He backed away slowly. A tiger, if you look down, if you turn, if that neighbor had run back to his door, that triggers their instinct to kill.

Carole Baskin

Found on CNN
2 years ago

He kept eye contact, he backed away slowly, a tiger, if you look down, if you turn, if that neighbor had run back to his door – that triggers their instinct to kill.

Victor Hugo

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

They asked him to step out the car, and you know his first instinct was,' What did I do, what's wrong ?' And they were like,' Well, put the phone down, get out the car now, we'll talk to you about it when you get out,' he said they pulled him over because he had air fresheners hanging from the rearview mirror.

Damik Bryant

Found on CNN
2 years ago

To act out of desperation is to act out of instinct. To let oneself get to that point however, is to ignore self-preservation.

Isaac Mashman

added by isaacmashman
2 years ago

I decided that it was not wisdom that enable poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such that you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime message without knowing in the least what they mean

Socrates

added by ValidVibes
2 years ago

Do not just jump into the water when you cannot clearly see everything beneath the surface. Eyes are easily deceived what instinct can only sense.

CLIFFORD VILLALON

added by Beverley2003
3 years ago

She had went down the hill. She had my 3-year-old nephew on with her. She saw the tree coming. Her first instinct was to put her foot down and flip the sled so my nephew wouldn’t get hurt. She hit the tree. Her heart stopped on the way to the hospital, everyone’s calling her a hero. But that was my baby.

Alexis Kraft

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

While the instinct may be to celebrate together, we can not get cocky, we must continue doing the things we know are effective at taming the virus : wear a mask, adhere to social distancing, and avoid Super Bowl gatherings.

New York

Found on CNN
3 years ago

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