How to Use instinctive in a Sentence

instinctive

adjective

• Cats have an instinctive desire to hunt.
• But there is a bit of an instinctive pull there as well.
  — Arushi Jacob, Variety, 27 Feb. 2026
• My ultimate goal is to be more instinctive with my all-around game.
  — Dallas News, 9 Feb. 2020
• Just be instinctive and enjoy the process.
  — Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 16 Nov. 2025
• 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
• Most of them have an instinctive fear of making less-than-perfect sounds.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Oct. 2019
• And Trump’s sharp instinctive punch-backs do not calm tensions.
  — SFChronicle.com, 5 July 2018
• The night lamp, for instance, has become an instinctive reach.
  — Christian Cotroneo, Treehugger, 24 Aug. 2023
• Collins is instinctive in coverage and takes the ball away at a high level.
  — Jeremy Cluff, The Arizona Republic, 30 Apr. 2021
• My mother-in-law has an instinctive hatred for dogs that seems like a phobia.
  — Sahaj Kaur Kohli, Anchorage Daily News, 4 Mar. 2023
• My mother-in-law has an instinctive hatred for dogs that seems like a phobia.
  — Sahaj Kaur Kohli, Washington Post, 2 Mar. 2023
• And coughing can be an instinctive response to try to moisten the mouth.
  — Jessica Migala, Women's Health, 15 Apr. 2023
• In this sense, fashion functions in a very instinctive way on my figures.
  — Essence, 17 June 2025
• For some of the volunteers, the move to act is almost instinctive.
  — Rebecca Kanthor / Shanghai, Time, 24 Feb. 2020
• Our brains are wired, at the core, to operate from an instinctive starting point.
  — Thomas Bradley Cox, Forbes, 11 May 2021
• Where does the line fall between instinctive fears and those acquired via culture?
  — Rebecca Giggs, The Atlantic, 5 Oct. 2020
• The penguins, on the other hand, just keep doing their instinctive thing.
  — Janice Wald Henderson, Condé Nast Traveler, 16 Feb. 2023
• Game 5 was the summation of his work in the dunker spot with his instinctive cutting.
  — Hunter Patterson, New York Times, 30 Apr. 2025
• 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
• Story is smart on offense, instinctive on defense and a winner on both sides of the ball.
  — al, 20 Aug. 2019
• With a guy that height who can move like that and is that instinctive, with those type of ball skills, those guys don’t come around every year.
  — Chad Graff, The Athletic, 24 Feb. 2025
• Thank God, Stranger Things has trained me to shut my mouth more than is instinctive for me.
  — Chris Smith, BGR, 16 Dec. 2022
• There’s an instinctive allure to want to bottle that magic and replicate it over and over.
  — Jason Parham, WIRED, 19 Feb. 2024
• 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
• But Davis boasts a balanced skill set and has proven to be a highly instinctive runner.
  — Michael Gehlken, Dallas News, 10 Aug. 2023
• An instinctive playmaker with good ball skills is what the Ravens need in the deep secondary.
  — Jonas Shaffer, baltimoresun.com, 29 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
• In high school and college, Gorski had been a heady but instinctive player.
  — Wilson Moore, The Indianapolis Star, 28 June 2022
• The pairing of birds of prey with Parrotheads is an instinctive one.
  — Trevor Fraser, OrlandoSentinel.com, 12 Apr. 2018
• When role demands match instinctive strengths, work feels like swimming with the current instead of against it.
  — Carrie Moore, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025