Instinctive in a sentence as an adjective

Not the instinctive fear of death, but the constant worrying.

Sometimes people have something real, but it's instinctive and they haven't yet sharpened or polished it.

We might not be consciously weighing profit and loss, but on a subconscious or instinctive level, we are.

It took me something like eight months, but when I was done I had an instinctive grasp of computers and mathematics that many of my college classmates still don't have.

The fundamental code which scrolls the screen about, renders the sprites and moves the objects around the screen will be something he's written so many times it's instinctive.

We have an instinctive aversion to radioactivity, because it's strange and invisible, but it's just energy.

Even if we can't help instinctive, irrational fear or bias, most people can acknowledge the irrational nature of their opinions and still intellectually acknowledge the true nature of the news.

It comes from, and speaks to people who share, a deep instinctive bias towards a metaphysical theory of consciousness - presumably because a purely physical model would be considered too mundane.

With the annoying proliferation of camera phones, I assure you that getting laid is not the only pleasurable leisure activity that seemingly everyone has a nearly instinctive desire to record and watch.

The same article speculates that even though several sound alerts might have been triggered - including a sound alerting of "Dual Input" -, the stress situation makes them insufficient: [...] in the circumstances identified as triggering instinctive responses the value of such alerts is degraded due to the inevitable attentional tunnelling that operators experience in high stress situations.

Instinctive definitions

adjective

unthinking; prompted by (or as if by) instinct; "a cat's natural aversion to water"; "offering to help was as instinctive as breathing"

See also: natural