How to Use impulse in a Sentence

impulse

noun

• He has to learn to control his impulses.
• That might curb their impulse to call you in the first place.
  — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 18 July 2022
• Locking up a firearm could put the brakes on the impulse.
  — Roni Caryn Rabin, New York Times, 17 Nov. 2020
• The natural impulse may be to fight the current and try to swim back to the shore.
  — Leigh Morgan, al, 27 Feb. 2023
• Those impulses recede, but linger over the rest of the record.
  — Maura Johnston, Time, 2 June 2018
• Think long-term, and learn to say 'no' to impulse spending.
  — Elizabeth Logan, Teen Vogue, 21 Sep. 2017
• Fight that impulse, and stick it on the grill, where the high heat will kill off the bacteria.
  — NBC News, 21 June 2019
• Those impulses had to be quelled in order to play the part.
  — Kenneth Partridge, Billboard, 10 Jan. 2018
• Were these pictures born from the same impulse that led you to sketch in school books?
  — Jordan Runtagh, PEOPLE.com, 14 Jan. 2022
• And this is a good impulse, most of the time, but there’s value in sweetness.
  — Claire Comstock-Gay, The Cut, 18 June 2018
• But his first impulse was to rush to the office and buy stock options.
  — Paul Voosen, Science | AAAS, 15 Apr. 2020
• The impulse to wonder and to pry is, of course, as old as courtship itself.
  — Anna Pulley, RedEye Chicago, 25 Sep. 2017
• Yet at 31, none of this daunts this creature of impulse.
  — Lawrence Toppman, charlotteobserver, 12 June 2018
• Will France feel any impulse to right the historic wrong?
  — Amy Wilentz, The New Republic, 25 May 2022
• On impulse, Justice kicked one back, well over the punter’s head.
  — Scott Fowler, Charlotte Observer, 31 Jan. 2024
• And then her next impulse was to change her breakfast plans.
  — Nancy Kruh, Peoplemag, 10 Nov. 2022
• The restaurant takes its name from the Latin word for movement or impulse.
  — Greg Morago, Houston Chronicle, 27 Feb. 2018
• The human impulse is to look for order, but there isn’t any.
  — Ann Patchett, Harper's Magazine, 17 Aug. 2021
• His first impulse was to buy himself a new car (the brown Audi).
  — Norman Vanamee, Town & Country, 6 Jan. 2023
• When Claremont found out, his first impulse was to quit in protest.
  — Graeme McMillan, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 June 2019
• The same impulses that drove him to scale the heights of his profession are what doomed him.
  — Vulture, 4 Feb. 2024
• His impulse is to guard his cherished savings and not to spend.
  — Judith Graham, CNN, 19 Aug. 2020
• The impulse to choose sides is inherent in our species.
  — Madeleine Albright, Time, 15 Jan. 2021
• As any parent, my impulse is to tell them to be careful and not get hurt.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Oct. 2022
• Just control that impulse to buy dozens and dozens of trinkets and cool stuff.
  — Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press, 8 Feb. 2018
• Those old impulses of doing the wrong thing just don’t go away.
  — Mike Sacks, Vanity Fair, 15 June 2017
• News across the Atlantic now flowed at the speed of an electrical impulse.
  — TIME, 18 Mar. 2024
• There is a zest for life, with an impulse to explore and expand.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 31 July 2020
• The impulse to hire is going to be a little bit higher.
  — Nicole Goodkind, CNN, 26 Feb. 2024
• By some measures, the impulse to sell this time around seems early.
  — Dan Gallagher, WSJ, 16 July 2021

Last Updated: 5 May 2024