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

Last Updated: 11 Nov 2024