Certainly my instinct is to identify with the police, no matter the circumstance.
In a flash he deflects the shot, with the speed of instinct, right past the goalkeeper.
The human desire for knowledge and exploration is an absolute good, and we need to follow that instinct.
At times he was wobbly about whether he really had enough sources to support what his instinct told him was the truth.
With so few resources, they get by on little more than instinct and family love.
She said it, as if guided by an instinct, to sound the depth of his love for her.
What instinct made you choose that shade of pale green for your frock?
Was it an instinct, she wondered—a reminder that there was in them material for manhood?
Yet she wondered if the instinct were not dormant, needing but the suggestion.
His instinct of sympathy with which he had greeted her at the outset was repelled, and made of no avail.
early 15c., "a prompting," from Latin instinctus "instigation, impulse," noun use of past participle of instinguere "to incite, impel," from in- "on" (see in- (2)) + stinguere "prick, goad," from PIE *steig- "to prick, stick, pierce" (see stick (v.)). Meaning "animal faculty of intuitive perception" is from mid-15c., from notion of "natural prompting." Sense of "innate tendency" is first recorded 1560s.
instinct in·stinct (ĭn'stĭngkt')
n.
An inborn pattern of behavior that is characteristic of a species and is often a response to specific environmental stimuli.
A powerful motivation or impulse.
