INSTINCTIVELY in a Sentence
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238 example sentences for INSTINCTIVELY, such as:
1. Birds learn to fly by instinct.
2. Birds have the instinct to learn to fly.
3. Animals have a natural instinct for survival.
4. She drew aside, instinctively obeying his tone.
5. It is a primitive instinct to flee a place of danger.
2. Birds have the instinct to learn to fly.
3. Animals have a natural instinct for survival.
4. She drew aside, instinctively obeying his tone.
5. It is a primitive instinct to flee a place of danger.
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Meanings and Examples of INSTINCTIVELY
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instinctively
ad. as a matter of instinct
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1 She drew aside, instinctively obeying his tone.
2 From the beginning of the discussion he had instinctively avoided the mention of Mattie's name, fearing he hardly knew what: criticism, complaints, or vague allusions to the imminent probability of her marrying.
3 Accompanying him also were the smells of chewing tobacco, well-oiled leather and horses--a combination of odors that she always associated with her father and instinctively liked in other men.
4 She instinctively knew how Coast people would act in any circumstance.
5 But they knew instinctively, as they knew thoroughbred horses from scrubs, that he was not of their class.
6 She had paused a moment with raised brows, drawing away instinctively from his touch, though she made no effort to evade his words.
7 For though it was a most unwonted hour, yet so impressive was the cry, and so deliriously exciting, that almost every soul on board instinctively desired a lowering.
8 Antonia stuck her fork in the ground, and instinctively we walked toward that unploughed patch at the crossing of the roads as the fittest place to talk to each other.
9 "I felt giddy and almost overcome," Edna said, lifting her hands instinctively to her head and pushing her straw hat up from her forehead.
10 The young man started, and recoiled a few paces instinctively, when he found himself within a hundred yards of a stranger Indian.
11 The old woman drew in her breath, and caught instinctively at her son.
12 From the cradle, Alfred was an aristocrat; and as he grew up, instinctively, all his sympathies and all his reasonings were in that line, and all mother's exhortations went to the winds.
13 It was dark when I awoke; I felt cold also, and half frightened, as it were, instinctively, finding myself so desolate.
14 Jordan Baker instinctively avoided clever shrewd men and now I saw that this was because she felt safer on a plane where any divergence from a code would be thought impossible.
15 I called up Daisy half an hour after we found him, called her instinctively and without hesitation.
Example Sentence: (28 in 2 pages)
1 When I saw him lift and poise the book and stand in act to hurl it, I instinctively started aside with a cry of alarm.
2 I did so, not at first aware what was his intention; but when I saw him lift and poise the book and stand in act to hurl it, I instinctively started aside with a cry of alarm.
3 If it's a bright, clear day outside, you may instinctively reach for your sunglasses when you head for the door.
4 Every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.
5 Few ministers have the nous or the instinct required to understand the ramifications.
6 Both superpowers shared the same instinct for self - preservation.
7 In negotiating you have to develop an instinct for when to be tough and when to make a deal.
8 He has managed to find a response to each new political development that chimes in with most Germans' instinct.
9 The wise are instructed by reason; ordinary minds, by experience; the stupid, by necessity; and brutes, by instinct.
10 Migrating birds and fish have a strong homing instinct.
11 Birds learn to fly by instinct.
12 Birds have the instinct to learn to fly.
13 Animals have a natural instinct for survival.
14 It is a primitive instinct to flee a place of danger.
15 When necessary, instinct is the most reliable resource you can fall back on.