instinct

[ˈɪnstɪŋkt]

Definition:
1. Inborn pattern of behavior often responsive to specific stimuli.
2. (followed by `with')deeply filled or permeated.

Use 'instinct' in a sentence:

1. Aggression is a kind of innate survival mechanism, an instinct for self preservation, that allows animals to defend themselves from threats to their existence.
2. Working off mostly instinct and some first-aid training，Wolnick delivered the six pound, 11ounce baby named Emma Lyn Anahi Ortega.
3. In trying to explain the Roman phenomenon, one would have to place great emphasis on this almost instinct for the territorial imperative.
4. I didn't have as strong a maternal instinct as some other mothers.
5. She didn't have any maternal instincts.
6. I should've gone with my first instinct, which was not to do the interview.
7. She hadn't followed her instinct and because of this Frank was dead.
8. The company's conservative instincts sit ill with competition.
9. She mostly took a tumble—but it's no surprise her first instinct was to protect her husband.
10. She had an unerring instinct for a good business deal.
11. He understood by a sort of instinct so natural that he did not know it was understanding.
12. Where we need some role modeling is in instinct, and that's where a dog is a roving revelation.
13. He always knew what time it was, as if by instinct.
14. It suggests inherited instinct.
15. 'Basic Instinct' catapulted her to top status among Hollywood's glamour goddesses.
16. It is a human instinct to make friends for we want to share our joy and sorrow.
17. Freud postulated that we all have a death instinct as well as a life instinct.
18. Another thing would be, if a hatchling gets separated from the rest of its family, once the others get far enough away, its survival instinct kicks in.
19. Farmers are increasingly losing touch with their instinct for managing the land.
20. Because they have an instinct for cleanliness.
21. Gardiner is simply trusting to instinct and experience.
22. He has managed to find a response to each new political development that chimes in with most Germans' instinct.
23. There is scientific evidence to support our instinct that being surrounded by plants is good for health.
24. In her extremity, an instinct told her to which of them to turn.
25. In the case of human aggression, violence cannot be simply reduced to an instinct.
26. I blame myself and will never be able to trust my instinct again.
27. Few ministers have the nous or the instinct required to understand the ramifications.
28. They have an instinct for cleanliness.
29. Mr. Weber should have used his instinct.
30. This hazard is much increased with species that are well disguised and whose natural instinct is to trust to this concealment as their principal defense.
31. Horses have a well-developed instinct for fear.
32. The players lacked the killer instinct.
33. The wish to impose order upon confusion is a kind of intellectual instinct.
34. They embrace priorities and follow procedures by instinct and assumption rather than by explicit decision, which means that they've created a culture.
35. The basis for training relies on the dog's natural instinct to hunt and retrieve.
36. He seems so honest and genuine and my every instinct says he's not.
37. Then the pigeons flew into thick fog, and the famous homing instinct failed.
38. Curiosity is often considered a good instinct—it can lead to new scientific advances, for instance—but sometimes such inquiry can backfire.
39. Their instincts do not always run parallel with ours.
40. He quit the sport when he realised he didn't have the killer instinct.
41. Irene is so incredibly musical and has a natural instinct to perform.
42. Children do not know by instinct the difference between right and wrong.
43. He should have let his instinct guide him.
44. She had little maternal instinct.
45. She has an unerring instinct for people's weak spots.
46. Her instincts had been right.
47. His first instinct was to run away.
48. "Basic Instinct" catapulted her to top status Hollywood.
49. Neither the human imitative instinct nor a penchant for fantasy by itself leads to an autonomous theater.
50. Many birds have a remarkable homing instinct.
51. It is a primitive instinct to flee a place of danger.
52. When necessary, instinct is the most reliable resource you can fall back on.
53. Even at school, he showed he had an instinct for business.