INTUITION in a Sentence

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She felt by intuition the flame of the opposing passions which burned with the blood in the veins of the young fanatic.

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 Meanings and Examples of INTUITION
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intuition
 n.  immediate insight; power of knowing without reasoning
Classic Sentence: (22 in 2 pages)
1  It was like an intuition; he comprehended it with his clear and sagacious promptitude.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER IX—THENARDIER AND HIS MANOEUVRES
2  The gamin is not devoid of literary intuition.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER III—HE IS AGREEABLE
3  She felt by intuition the flame of the opposing passions which burned with the blood in the veins of the young fanatic.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 55 CAPTIVITY: THE FOURTH DAY
4  In other words, Mr. Dimmesdale, whose sensibility of nerve often produced the effect of spiritual intuition, would become vaguely aware that something inimical to his peace had thrust itself into relation with him.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In X. THE LEECH AND HIS PATIENT
5  Her eyes sought the faces about her, craving a responsive glance, some sign of an intuition of her trouble.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 11
6  I have a kind of intuition that way.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER II. THE SCIENCE OF DEDUCTION
7  But some intuitive repugnance, getting the better of years of social discipline, had made her push Mr. Rosedale into his OUBLIETTE without a trial.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 2
8  Like a certain class of modern philosophers, Dinah perfectly scorned logic and reason in every shape, and always took refuge in intuitive certainty; and here she was perfectly impregnable.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
9  It was producing a new race of mankind, over-conscious in the money and social and political side, on the spontaneous, intuitive side dead, but dead.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 11
10  By strength of will we cut off our inner intuitive knowledge from admitted consciousness.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 19
11  The young man, with the intuitive perception of a lover, quickly understood the circumstances in which she was involuntarily placed, and he was comforted.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 57. In the Lucerne Patch.
12  I knew, by instinct, how the matter stood, before St. John had said another word; but I cannot expect the reader to have the same intuitive perception, so I must repeat his explanation.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII
13  But Old Roger Chillingworth, too, had perceptions that were almost intuitive; and when the minister threw his startled eyes towards him, there the physician sat; his kind, watchful, sympathising, but never intrusive friend.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In X. THE LEECH AND HIS PATIENT
14  Each of them wants a creature of a different race, of Jack's race and mine, with all sorts of intuitions, sensations and perceptions that they don't even guess the existence of.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 4
15  His craving was for the companionship of one whose point of view should justify his own, who should confirm, by deliberate observation, the truth to which his intuitions had leaped.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 14
Example Sentence:
1  Even though Tony denied that anything was wrong, Tina trusted her intuition that something was bothering him.
2  For me the reason to meditate is to clear my mind, as well as to become keen to intuition.
3  Often there's no clear evidence one way or the other and you just have to base your judgement on intuition.
4  It appears that much of the cuisine is an intuitive affair, based on the state, and available ingredients.
5  He distrusted hunches and intuitive flashes; he placed his reliance entirely on empirical data.
6  You love your BlackBerry smart phone for its reliable push email, intuitive interface and long-lasting battery.
7  A positive pregnancy test soon confirmed her intuitive feelings.
8  Women have been taught from a young age to be aware of their surroundings and to be very security conscious. I think women intuitively grasp the need for security.
9  Avoid making intuitively obvious but unfounded assertions.