"instinct" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- And I've kind of kept to that - but my paternal instincts have become very strong.
- If paternal instincts had evolved simply for the good of their children, fathers shouldn't care whether they're sleeping with the mother.
- He was so lacking in the paternal instinct, he seriously considered putting at least one of them up for adoption.
- The students have provided, he says, an outlet for his natural paternal instincts.
- Soon their paternal instincts take hold, and they grow attached to the child.
- Louka appears proud to have no paternal instincts at all.
- Keen for a big family himself, he had clear paternal instincts.
- Do they not have paternal instincts that are chemically depressed by crack use?
- Later in life Jo recounted that her father had practically no paternal instincts, and the family's existence was always troubled.
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