Instinctively

//ɪnˈstɪŋktɪvli//

"Instinctively" in a Sentence (14 examples)

The economist instinctively anticipated the current depression.

At the moment she saw a tall man with a gun standing in the doorway, she instinctively backed away.

I'm instinctively bad with children and infants.

When I lifted a potted plant in my garden, there were swarms of little insects crawling underneath, and I instinctively let out a shriek.

Birds learn to fly instinctively.

I trust your ability to know what to do instinctively.

Tom reacted instinctively.

Children instinctively know what goes on between their parents.

Tom instinctively backed away.

Although I almost instinctively felt some resentment that my employer had placed me on probation after my mistake, I soon overcame my feelings of animus towards her and, instead of harbouring a grudge, resolved to treat the entire affair as a necessary learning experience.

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Fish instinctively know how to swim; most humans don't.

She loved him so passionately, and he was so godlike in her eyes; and being, though untrained, instinctively refined, her nature cried for his tutelary guidance.

'I am, perhaps, overgreedy, but I sense a good cook instinctively.'

While Conservative and Labour MPs instinctively had deep political differences, they were united in the cold view that at the end of the 1950s, Britain's railways were friendless and almost finished.

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