How to Use instinctive in a Sentence

instinctive

adjective

• Cats have an instinctive desire to hunt.
• Maybe the surest and most instinctive tackler on the team.
  — Kevin Sherrington, Dallas News, 15 Mar. 2023
• New Browns S John Johnson is viewed as one of the smartest, instinctive safeties in the league.
  — Terry Pluto, cleveland, 15 Mar. 2021
• Thank God, Stranger Things has trained me to shut my mouth more than is instinctive for me.
  — Chris Smith, BGR, 16 Dec. 2022
• Both are instinctive as hell and always around the ball.
  — Matt Zenitz | [e-mail], al, 29 Dec. 2020
• You were born and raised in L.A., and your photographs give off this instinctive love and pride for the city.
  — Andrea Alonso, Los Angeles Magazine, 27 Mar. 2018
• For Trump, such concerns take a back seat to his instinctive need to punch back.
  — Ben Shapiro, National Review, 24 Oct. 2017
• Samuel is instinctive and savvy enough to stay on top of receivers and make plays on any pass thrown his way.
  — Michael Middlehurst-Schwartz, USA TODAY, 29 Apr. 2021
• It’s just instinctive; she was born with a gift for X-ray vision that way.
  — Adam Rathe, Town & Country, 23 Aug. 2021
• For some of the volunteers, the move to act is almost instinctive.
  — Rebecca Kanthor / Shanghai, Time, 24 Feb. 2020
• The instinctive Moon is zipping through your 9th House of Learning, giving you a bird's eye view of the world.
  — Tarot Astrologers, chicagotribune.com, 1 Mar. 2022
• For many of us, the rejection of G.M.O.s is instinctive.
  — New York Times, 20 July 2021
• That and the sight of shoulders slumping on the mound and that instinctive pause in the batter's box as the hitter admired his work.
  — Greg Cote, miamiherald, 9 July 2017
• The instinctive human need to tell stories lives on, as does the desire to hear or see those tales and pass them along.
  — Helene Elliott, Los Angeles Times, 27 Feb. 2024
• Ji-Man Choi playing in at first base, but Betts made the instinctive play and took off for home, beating the throw with a head-first slide.
  — Schuyler Dixon, orlandosentinel.com, 28 Oct. 2020
• As in, maybe there’s a risk in overthinking it and taking some of the instinctive magic out of it?
  — Brian McCollum, Detroit Free Press, 14 Feb. 2018
• And coughing can be an instinctive response to try to moisten the mouth.
  — Jessica Migala, Women's Health, 15 Apr. 2023
• An instinctive playmaker with good ball skills is what the Ravens need in the deep secondary.
  — Jonas Shaffer, baltimoresun.com, 29 Apr. 2021
• Collins is instinctive in coverage and takes the ball away at a high level.
  — Jeremy Cluff, The Arizona Republic, 30 Apr. 2021
• My instinctive response to a problem, to a crisis, is to take a beat and then start looking for ways to fix it.
  — SI.com, 28 Aug. 2019
• And Trump’s sharp instinctive punch-backs do not calm tensions.
  — SFChronicle.com, 5 July 2018
• With the Wizards, he was known as The Genius for his attention to detail and his instinctive feel for the game.
  — New York Times, 1 Nov. 2021
• Our guys are instinctive kind of players, so I’m not surprised by it.
  — Edward Lee, baltimoresun.com, 18 Sep. 2017
• Most of them have an instinctive fear of making less-than-perfect sounds.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Oct. 2019
• The penguins, on the other hand, just keep doing their instinctive thing.
  — Janice Wald Henderson, Condé Nast Traveler, 16 Feb. 2023
• But Davis boasts a balanced skill set and has proven to be a highly instinctive runner.
  — Michael Gehlken, Dallas News, 10 Aug. 2023
• The idea of chip sovereignty has an instinctive appeal.
  — Rakesh Kumar, Fortune, 29 Apr. 2022
• My ultimate goal is to be more instinctive with my all-around game.
  — Dallas News, 9 Feb. 2020
• Jones was a grizzled murder cop, an instinctive investigator who spoke fast and tended to wear his tie askew.
  — Heidi Blake, The New Yorker, 29 July 2024
• Re is unapologetic about its own whimsy: Its brand of magical realism is instinctive — even unconscious, perhaps.
  — Ernesto Lechner, Rolling Stone, 22 July 2024

Last Updated: 1 Nov 2024