Sentence examples for instinctive from inspiring English sources
"instinctive" is an absolutely correct and usable word in written English
You can use it to refer to something that is done based on natural instinct. For example, "He had an instinctive urge to protect the child from danger."
adjective
Related to or prompted by instinct.
What if his instinctive opposition to the formation of the coalition had been heeded?
The article praised the prime minister's "instinctive" response that "If you go abroad to join a terrorist group and you seek to come back to Australia, you will be arrested, you will be prosecuted and jailed" in comparison with Shorten's reaction that "There are laws in place, I'm not going to play judge and jury".
So it should be instinctive to military people to preserve energy and our environment".
For humans, dreams are bestial, instinctive and intellectual all at once.
Stephen Daldry, working from Lee Hall's trenchant and witty script, displays a instinctive visual flair and cinematic understanding.
His response to the first draft of the script was, he says, "instinctive".
The actual line writing is done best, I think, when it is entirely instinctive.
He has a very choreographic approach to directing, an instinctive way of working with bodies.
"I understand it is complicated and contentious and there are other ideas on the table, but what we are trying to create is an instinctive link between fixing banks and the huge challenges facing people on this planet.
He remains the instinctive and outspoken radical who visited Salem in 1952 to search the court house records of 1692 for an account of the witchcraft trials.
The rise of François Bayrou was a slap in the face for Sarkozy, showing as it did that he did not command the instinctive support of everyone in the centre or on the right.
