11 example sentences using impulse.
Impulse used in a sentence
Impulse in a sentence as a noun
There is no sense of community, or impulse for people to help each other out and being nice to strangers.
If you truly believe this, you should demonstrate it by controlling your impulse to be an *******.
Lowering it to $15 for a license would put it in impulse buy territory for most people, and you'd likely get a lot more backers and receive more money.
So, you read an article about how easy server-side rendering is with React, and your first impulse is to rant about client-side rendering?
Lead exposure causes cognitive problems in children, especially related to impulse control.
The problem is, its less qualified and their intentions aren't easily converted to caring about our product, they're distracted by some other impulse.
When you try to do that, you wind up mixing up the goals of private venturing with those of broader social institutions such as government or those of private charitable impulse.
And when people finding their own cures succede, their natural impulse is to share their triumph with all mankind, the world over, not start trade wars over IP that use the pain and death of millions already in - or facing - poverty as leverage.
When someone unsuccessful says "Hey man, just because you make more than me doesn't make you better than me", there is an impulse to say "Of course you'd say that, if you got off your lazy *** and got a job you could be successful too, but damnit, I worked for what I got!
I'd find it quite morally acceptable to solve society's problems in a way that finds them bad, if they weren't willing to decline peacefully and gracefully, but I also think revenge is an utterly stupid impulse and find it most useful to not care either way what happens to them, as long as they're removed from power.
So every month or so when another "programmers don't need to know math" article comes out, usually written by a web programmer, I have an impulse to represent the other side of the divide, but I usually find so many misconceptions and poor assumptions in the original article that I conclude it's too much work.
Impulse definitions
an instinctive motive; "profound religious impulses"
See also: urge
the electrical discharge that travels along a nerve fiber; "they demonstrated the transmission of impulses from the cortex to the hypothalamus"
(electronics) a sharp transient wave in the normal electrical state (or a series of such transients); "the pulsations seemed to be coming from a star"
an impelling force or strength; "the car's momentum carried it off the road"
See also: momentum