IMPULSIVE in a Sentence

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She had risen, as if impulsively, from where she lay on the sofa, and raised both her hands, palms upwards, as if lifting a weight.

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 Meanings and Examples of IMPULSIVE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
impulsive
 a.  having power of driving or impelling; giving an impulse; moving; impellent
Classic Sentence: (156 in 11 pages)
1  She pointed up to the sky, then to my eyes, then back to the sky, with movements so quick and impulsive that she distracted me, and I had no idea what she wanted.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: III
2  Even after she learned to speak English readily, there was always something impulsive and foreign in her speech.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3. Lena Lingard: IV
3  She was fond of her children in an uneven, impulsive way.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In VII
4  You are not impulsive, you are not romantic, you are accustomed to view everything from the strong dispassionate ground of reason and calculation.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XV
5  For a moment we caught a glimpse of the natural man, impulsive, ardent, keenly sensitive.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In XIII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SECOND STAIN
6  As he sat down beside her, Amy felt shy again, and turned rosy red at the recollection of her impulsive greeting.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER FORTY-ONE
7  He had left Moscow when Boris was a boy of fourteen, and had quite forgotten him, but in his usual impulsive and hearty way he took Boris by the hand with a friendly smile.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVI
8  It was so nice to know that she looked pretty and provocative, and she impulsively bent forward and kissed her reflection in the mirror and then laughed at her own foolishness.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
9  She went in impulsively; nodded at the matron, a plump worthy widow named Nodelquist, and at a couple of farm-women who were meekly rocking.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
10  The second evening after the movies she impulsively summoned Vida Sherwin and Guy to the house for pop-corn and cider.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
11  She impulsively invited the Dillons to the dramatic association meeting, and when Kennicott was brusque to them she was unusually cordial, and felt virtuous.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
12  It seemed but poor comfort to so brave and unselfish a soul, and impulsively I bent over and kissed him.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
13  She had risen, as if impulsively, from where she lay on the sofa, and raised both her hands, palms upwards, as if lifting a weight.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
14  Sergius, with an exclamation of pleasure, goes impulsively to meet her.
Arms and the Man By George Bernard Shaw
Context  Highlight   In ACT II
15  For we see that in what they do some men act impulsively, others warily and with caution.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER IX.
Example Sentence: (20 in 2 pages)
1  A colleague once referred to impulsive children as “MNM” kids: Me, Now, and More!
2  Finally, his expression solemn, he replied, You are a complex woman, Annabel, despite the fact that you sometimes behave like an impulsive child.
3  Rosa was impulsive and sometimes regretted things she'd done.
4  They display chocolates next to supermarket checkouts to encourage impulse buying.
5  The door was open and on impulse she went inside.
6  I resisted the impulse to laugh.
7  The main impulse for the unrest came from extremist Muslims.
8  It is the passions which provide the main impulse of music.
9  My first impulse was to run away.
10  Unable to resist the impulse, he glanced at the sea again.
11  He had a sudden impulse to stand up and sing.
12  The next day and the day after, he hung about the court-room, drawn by an almost irresistible impulse to go in, but forcing himself to stay out.
13  When mists as chill as death wandered to the impulse of east winds along those purple peaks, and rolled down "ing" and holm till they blended with the frozen fog of the beck!
14  If the transgression is a result of accident rather than impulse or intent, the root is not in us.
15  When mists as chill as death wandered to the impulse of east winds along those purple peaks, and rolled down till they blended with the frozen fog of the beck!