INSTINCT in a Sentence

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But you see, even a low bitch like that turns on him, and uses the hyena instinct of the mob against sex, to pull him down.

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 Meanings and Examples of INSTINCT
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instinct
 n.  inborn pattern of behavior ; nature
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  When a man writes on a wall, his instinct leads him to write about the level of his own eyes.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER IV. WHAT JOHN RANCE HAD TO TELL
2  Uninvited, unexpected, droppers-in, lured off the high road by the very same instinct that caused the sheep and the cows to desire propinquity, they had come.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 3
3  With Jekyll, it was a thing of vital instinct.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER HENRY JEKYLL'S FULL STATEMENT OF THE CASE
4  As Rowena bent her steed towards Locksley's seat, that bold yeoman, with all his followers, rose to receive her, as if by a general instinct of courtesy.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXII.
5  Clifford was a coming man; and it was remarkable what a sound publicity instinct he had.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
6  He had pushed his way by sheer instinct and sheerer effrontery on to the stage and to the front of it, with his plays.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
7  But it all hinges on the instinct for success.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4
8  As for Hammond, he's got a property instinct, so naturally the straight road and the narrow gate are right for him.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4
9  Why, Connie, I should trust your natural instinct of decency and selection.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
10  Her woman's instinct sensed it.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
11  Suddenly, with all the force of her female instinct, she was shoving him off.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 8
12  Clifford fascinated her because he always, or so often, frustrated her will, as if by a finer instinct.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 9
13  But he was quite consciously afraid of society, which he knew by instinct to be a malevolent, partly-insane beast.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 10
14  Her old instinct was to fight for her freedom.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 10
15  But you see, even a low bitch like that turns on him, and uses the hyena instinct of the mob against sex, to pull him down.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 17
Example Sentence: (28 in 2 pages)
1  Few ministers have the nous or the instinct required to understand the ramifications.
2  Both superpowers shared the same instinct for self - preservation.
3  In negotiating you have to develop an instinct for when to be tough and when to make a deal.
4  He has managed to find a response to each new political development that chimes in with most Germans' instinct.
5  The wise are instructed by reason; ordinary minds, by experience; the stupid, by necessity; and brutes, by instinct.
6  Migrating birds and fish have a strong homing instinct.
7  Birds learn to fly by instinct.
8  Birds have the instinct to learn to fly.
9  Animals have a natural instinct for survival.
10  It is a primitive instinct to flee a place of danger.
11  When necessary, instinct is the most reliable resource you can fall back on.
12  His first instinct was to run away from danger.
13  He quit the sport when he realised he didn't have the killer instinct.
14  It often puts EU into conflict with members, such as Germany, whose natural instinct was to protect industries that employed thousands of people.
15  By what instinct do you pretend to distinguish between a fallen seraph of the abyss and a messenger from the eternal throne -- between a guide and a seducer?