INSTINCTIVELY in a Sentence

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1. Birds learn to fly by instinct.
2. Birds have the instinct to learn to fly.
3. Animals have a natural instinct for survival.
4. She drew aside, instinctively obeying his tone.
5. It is a primitive instinct to flee a place of danger.

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 Meanings and Examples of INSTINCTIVELY
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
instinctively
 ad.  as a matter of instinct or nature
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  She drew aside, instinctively obeying his tone.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IV
2  From the beginning of the discussion he had instinctively avoided the mention of Mattie's name, fearing he hardly knew what: criticism, complaints, or vague allusions to the imminent probability of her marrying.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VII
3  Accompanying him also were the smells of chewing tobacco, well-oiled leather and horses--a combination of odors that she always associated with her father and instinctively liked in other men.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
4  She instinctively knew how Coast people would act in any circumstance.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
5  But they knew instinctively, as they knew thoroughbred horses from scrubs, that he was not of their class.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXX
6  She had paused a moment with raised brows, drawing away instinctively from his touch, though she made no effort to evade his words.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 7
7  For though it was a most unwonted hour, yet so impressive was the cry, and so deliriously exciting, that almost every soul on board instinctively desired a lowering.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 51. The Spirit-Spout.
8  Antonia stuck her fork in the ground, and instinctively we walked toward that unploughed patch at the crossing of the roads as the fittest place to talk to each other.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4. The Pioneer Woman's Story: IV
9  "I felt giddy and almost overcome," Edna said, lifting her hands instinctively to her head and pushing her straw hat up from her forehead.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XIII
10  The young man started, and recoiled a few paces instinctively, when he found himself within a hundred yards of a stranger Indian.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 21
11  The old woman drew in her breath, and caught instinctively at her son.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
12  From the cradle, Alfred was an aristocrat; and as he grew up, instinctively, all his sympathies and all his reasonings were in that line, and all mother's exhortations went to the winds.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
13  It was dark when I awoke; I felt cold also, and half frightened, as it were, instinctively, finding myself so desolate.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 11
14  Jordan Baker instinctively avoided clever shrewd men and now I saw that this was because she felt safer on a plane where any divergence from a code would be thought impossible.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
15  I called up Daisy half an hour after we found him, called her instinctively and without hesitation.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 9
Example Sentence: (28 in 2 pages)
1  When I saw him lift and poise the book and stand in act to hurl it, I instinctively started aside with a cry of alarm.
2  I did so, not at first aware what was his intention; but when I saw him lift and poise the book and stand in act to hurl it, I instinctively started aside with a cry of alarm.
3  If it's a bright, clear day outside, you may instinctively reach for your sunglasses when you head for the door.
4  Every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.
5  Few ministers have the nous or the instinct required to understand the ramifications.
6  Both superpowers shared the same instinct for self - preservation.
7  In negotiating you have to develop an instinct for when to be tough and when to make a deal.
8  He has managed to find a response to each new political development that chimes in with most Germans' instinct.
9  The wise are instructed by reason; ordinary minds, by experience; the stupid, by necessity; and brutes, by instinct.
10  Migrating birds and fish have a strong homing instinct.
11  Birds learn to fly by instinct.
12  Birds have the instinct to learn to fly.
13  Animals have a natural instinct for survival.
14  It is a primitive instinct to flee a place of danger.
15  When necessary, instinct is the most reliable resource you can fall back on.