How to Use sixth sense in a Sentence

sixth sense

noun
  • She claimed to have a sixth sense for knowing when someone was about to call her.
  • That's the Japanese sense for the sixth sense of taste.
    Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 20 July 2022
  • It’s not his or her sixth sense; it’s his or her seventh or eighth.
    James Parker, The Atlantic, 10 June 2020
  • The trio seem to have a sixth sense for each other's movements and whereabouts.
    SI.com, 11 Sep. 2019
  • Listen to your sixth sense when making plans for later in the day.
    BostonGlobe.com, 2 June 2018
  • Usually, though, fan input lingers in the back of the writers’ minds, like a sixth sense.
    Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 9 Aug. 2022
  • The bad guy in this movie can braincloud the communal sixth sense of the Jedi magi caste.
    Darren Franich, EW.com, 3 Dec. 2019
  • Barrett has always been a rule breaker with a sixth sense for trends.
    Vanessa Lawrence, ELLE Decor, 22 Feb. 2021
  • In doing so, Collins and his team hope to help each guest access a sixth sense by, of course, opening their third eye.
    Matt Koesters, Cincinnati.com, 16 June 2020
  • To build this sixth sense, a hunter must focus to the point of ignoring everything else.
    Outdoor Life, 17 Dec. 2020
  • In his prime Davis was endowed with a sixth sense for assessing talent.
    Jon Wertheim, SI.com, 27 Aug. 2019
  • But every time, as if guided by some sixth sense, Whittier or Werder swipes them back in with a gloved hand.
    Julia Rosen, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Mar. 2022
  • Barefoot, swinging empty tomato-paste cans, the kids roamed the streets with a sixth sense for those with generous souls.
    Lane Hartill, The Christian Science Monitor, 4 Apr. 2018
  • People have many ways of talking about intuition: gut, nose, sixth sense, horse sense, Spidey-sense.
    Steve Kolowich, Washington Post, 20 June 2019
  • Tarah believes some people are born with a sixth sense, a gift of seeing people beyond the living.
    Sheryl Devore, chicagotribune.com, 30 Oct. 2020
  • Your sixth sense — the one beyond sight, hearing, touch, taste and smell — may be leading you to seventh heaven, the very height of happiness.
    Richard Lederer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Oct. 2019
  • In Silas Howard’s endearing but uneven film Darby and the Dead, the heroine parlays her sixth sense into a side gig.
    Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 Dec. 2022
  • Scientists in Japan have proven that humans may have a sixth sense: echolocation.
    Sarah Wells, Popular Mechanics, 10 May 2021
  • Some Good Morning America viewers might have a sixth sense.
    Janine Rubenstein, Peoplemag, 30 Apr. 2023
  • Harvin, though, did not have Toney’s ankle-breaking wiggle and sixth sense for defenders closing in on him.
    Edgar Thompson, orlandosentinel.com, 1 Nov. 2020
  • Sixty years of collecting has also given him a sixth sense for knowing when a new vessel will go on the market.
    Kate Sierzputowski, Chicago Reader, 26 Feb. 2018
  • You’re being invited to tune out from your usual approach to life and tap into your sixth sense to look for messages that are meant for you and only you.
    Tarot Astrologers, chicagotribune.com, 23 May 2021
  • The handoff occurred not long before the Keeper, probably with a sixth sense about his job, reappeared and demanded the Cup go back on the table.
    Gene Myers, Detroit Free Press, 14 June 2022
  • Yes, my husband could carry more weight than me, navigate by some magical sixth sense, and build a shelter on the spot, but that wasn’t all that mattered on this trip.
    Caroline Van Hemert, Outside Online, 20 Apr. 2020
  • Proprioception is sometimes called the sixth sense: the body’s awareness of its location and movement in space.
    Richard A. Lovett, Outside Online, 9 June 2022
  • Very rarely does a championship prediction tattoo work out on in the recipients' favor, but that doesn't stop fans from trying to put their sixth sense to the test.
    Charlotte Carroll, SI.com, 18 Jan. 2018
  • But definitive proof of whales’ magnetic sixth sense remains tricky to find.
    Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Feb. 2020
  • Developing a sixth sense means training your team to notice who is not being included, what is not being said and why.
    Joyce Talag, Forbes, 25 Jan. 2023
  • After the typical honeymoon phase, my (often very sharp) sixth sense can’t seem to let go of an issue: other women.
    BostonGlobe.com, 25 Apr. 2021
  • Many of these submissions came from women and men who claimed to be seers, who experienced precognition throughout their lives as a sort of sixth sense.
    Ian Beacock, The New Republic, 25 Aug. 2022

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