"instinct" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Though she had spent three months on the command track, none of her nurturing instincts had dulled.
- Hadley was red-haired, with a "nurturing instinct", and eight years older than Hemingway.
- An adult's kindness to a child, as a means of affirming and expressing basic paternal nurturing instincts, is understandable.
- Her nurturing instincts kicked into high gear despite her best efforts to remain unaffected.
- On the other hand, humans seem also to have a nurturing instinct, to protect newborns and the weak.
- But my nurturing instincts are fulfilled in other ways.
- In a recent Time magazine article, a man who was childless by choice said he satisfied his nurturing instinct by occasionally spending time and money on nieces and nephews.
- Kularg's nurturing instincts might have been construed by some as a form of weakness.
- She was tempted to ask him when he'd last had a good, homecooked meal, but she had ruthlessly crushed the nurturing instinct.
- If she did not kill it, her nurturing instinct might take over.
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