impulses
Example Sentences
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Examples can include speaking too loudly in a library or struggling to control impulses, difficulties that can occur with ADHD.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 20, 2026
It’s meant to represent dueling impulses inside of him, he explains.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2026
But it’s also a story about, say, how a creature’s loneliness might make him greedy and petulant, and how sometimes the best solution is to feed someone’s heart as opposed to their impulses.
From Salon ● Jul. 8, 2026
Ammons reacted uneasily to Bloom’s praise and felt the critic failed to recognize his poetic impulses.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 29, 2026
That was the way he lived; he passed his days trying to defeat or gratify powerful impulses in a world he feared.
From "Native Son" by Richard Wright
