instinctively
Example Sentences
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But, much like a car accident on the 405 that you instinctively know you shouldn’t stare, I just can’t seem to avert my eyes from the wreck the Chargers have become.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 10, 2026
Confronted with the inexplicable, Morewedge says, we instinctively turn to the “incredible psychological machinery that we have for thinking about how people behave.”
From Slate ● Sep. 27, 2026
Such a request would usually make listeners recoil instinctively.
From Salon ● Sep. 11, 2026
Each time I open the front door, I still instinctively expect to see her wagging tail.
From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2026
I shuddered involuntarily, and clung instinctively closer to my blind but beloved master.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
