How to Use impulse in a Sentence

impulse

noun

• He has to learn to control his impulses.
• What a strong impulse this must be.
  — Literary Hub, 27 Feb. 2026
• Some of that impulse makes sense.
  — Julyssa Lopez, Rolling Stone, 13 Jan. 2026
• That might curb their impulse to call you in the first place.
  — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 18 July 2022
• Your first impulse may be to toss the whole thing in the garbage.
  — Mary Marlowe Leverette, The Spruce, 19 Feb. 2026
• But their first impulse was to pitch in and help others.
  — James Verini, The Atlantic, 12 May 2026
• My art is where these impulses shake hands.
  — Byron Armstrong, Forbes.com, 28 Aug. 2025
• The impulse to shop your values isn’t naive.
  — Patrick Van Esch, The Conversation, 25 May 2026
• The same impulse is again on display.
  — Michael Scherer, The Atlantic, 29 Jan. 2026
• With squiggly green worms so bright that your impulse is to squint.
  — Lauren Rothery, Harpers Magazine, 19 Sep. 2025
• Austin said she's come around to people, but still has an impulse to run away.
  — Liz O'Connell, MSNBC Newsweek, 2 Oct. 2025
• Were these pictures born from the same impulse that led you to sketch in school books?
  — Jordan Runtagh, PEOPLE.com, 14 Jan. 2022
• And that’s the impulse behind this.
  — Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 23 Mar. 2026
• The impulse to make music is the greatest fun in life.
  — Victoria Edel, People.com, 26 Aug. 2025
• Perhaps your first impulse will be to do something fun with it.
  — Tarot Astrologers, Chicago Tribune, 8 Aug. 2023
• But his first impulse was to rush to the office and buy stock options.
  — Paul Voosen, Science | AAAS, 15 Apr. 2020
• There is a zest for life, with an impulse to explore and expand.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 31 July 2020
• The film is a collage of all of those impulses.
  — Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 31 Jan. 2026
• My first impulse is no longer to destroy those that might be a nuisance.
  — Steve Meyer, Anchorage Daily News, 24 July 2021
• Those old impulses of doing the wrong thing just don’t go away.
  — Mike Sacks, Vanity Fair, 15 June 2017
• When Claremont found out, his first impulse was to quit in protest.
  — Graeme McMillan, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 June 2019
• By some measures, the impulse to sell this time around seems early.
  — Dan Gallagher, WSJ, 16 July 2021
• Well, the whole impulse of the film came with this idea of remembrance.
  — Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 12 May 2026
• Those impulses recede, but linger over the rest of the record.
  — Maura Johnston, Time, 2 June 2018
• Many consignors make an impulse buy, then never wear the item.
  — Laura Daily, Washington Post, 26 Sep. 2023
• Just control that impulse to buy dozens and dozens of trinkets and cool stuff.
  — Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press, 8 Feb. 2018
• Poi Dog comes from an impulse to tell our stories my way, through food.
  — NBC News, 1 May 2018
• The impulse to wonder and to pry is, of course, as old as courtship itself.
  — Anna Pulley, RedEye Chicago, 25 Sep. 2017
• But those impulses were, for the most part, confined to the fringes.
  — Peter Wehner, The Atlantic, 23 Mar. 2026
• On impulse, Justice kicked one back, well over the punter’s head.
  — Scott Fowler, Charlotte Observer, 31 Jan. 2024