"instinct" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Although they are lively, gentle mannered, demonstrably affectionate and sensitive, they are also fearless and possessed of a well-developed protective instinct.
- He wasn't suspicious of her-not yet-but he had well-developed instincts against telling anyone more about himself than was absolutely necessary.
- He yelped, ducked with an apprentice's well-developed instinct, and went pelting back the way he'd come.
- So horses normally have good memories and a well-developed instinct for fear.
- As an ambitious man with a well-developed instinct for self-preservation and survival, he knew what his course of action must be.
- The principal told my father that instead of complaining about his son he should have compassion for the boys who were, he said, only acting out of a well-developed instinct for the survival of the group.
- After a brisk chase lasting half an hour, during which Blondel's well-developed instincts indicated pursuit close behind, he went to ground in a dim-lit chili and tequila house peopled by furtive persons of unmistakably nonMonitorial appearance.
- Haven: A birdlike creature with well-developed nesting instincts.
- Horse behavior is best understood from the view that horses are prey animals with a well-developed fight-or-flight instinct.
- While a panicky Congress has rushed in recent days to reform the business world, it has not entirely lost its well-developed instinct for catering to special interests.
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