instinct in English

adjective

1

imbued or filled with (a quality, especially a desirable one).

these canvases are instinct with passion

noun

1

an innate, typically fixed pattern of behavior in animals in response to certain stimuli.

birds have an instinct to build nests

adjective

• replete

noun

• natural tendency, inherent tendency, inclination, urge, drive, compulsion, need, intuition, feeling, hunch, sixth sense, insight, nose
• talent, gift, ability, aptitude, faculty, skill, flair, feel, genius, knack, bent

Use "instinct" in a sentence

1. What's instinct?

2. Maternal instinct.

3. It's instinct.

4. The survival instinct.

5. It's natural instinct.

6. Probably just bureaucratic instinct.

7. ‘Instinct,’ one may say.

8. lt's a natural instinct.

9. The animal instinct takes over.

10. Anxiety is instinct gone haywire.

11. It was a good instinct.

12. Does the computer have instinct?

13. I acted purely on instinct.

14. Gertrude lacks any maternal instinct.

15. Every woman has maternal instinct.

16. She had little maternal instinct.

17. We sometimes act on instinct.

18. The Walking Dead: Survival Instinct.

19. Competitiveness: as in aggression, killer instinct

20. Being Human: On the MetAphorizing Instinct

21. But he has a criminal-instinct.

22. Ladies have an instinct for carefulness.

23. The players lacked the killer instinct.

24. A strong maternal instinct takes over.

25. Among us, instinct deters from it, if we can speak of instinct at all as Appertaining to man.

26. He attributes that to policymakers’ Centralising instinct

27. Animals have a natural instinct for survival.

28. He lacked the common instinct for survival.

29. His first instinct was to run away.

30. His instinct would be to ignore it-

31. Most people's instinct is to look away.

32. 3 Suckling is an instinct in mammals.

33. In my view, it's the herd instinct.

34. I need more than your instinct, Mr. Bauer.

35. Birds have the instinct to learn to fly.

36. She seems to have a strong maternal instinct .

37. Lord of the Flies dramatizes the conflict between the civilizing instinct and the Barbarizing instinct that exist in all human beings

38. Shall I tell you my instinct on this?

39. Instinct led the pigeons back to the roost.

40. Horses have a well-developed instinct for fear.

41. But Imelda Finnegan was astute, strong in instinct.

42. Is the insect then moved only by instinct ?

43. It was my natural instinct to defend myself.

44. The natural instinct was to scuttle for shelter.

45. But that instinct, to walk in someone else's shoes?

46. His first instinct was to rush back to Isobel.

47. 26 The resurgence of deathless poetic instinct did that.

48. This right here, you have to trust your instinct.

49. It's the pivot, it's biology, it's the natural instinct.

50. 4 The resurgence of deathless poetic instinct did that.