Sample sentences for INTRINSIC

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belonging to a thing by its very nature

It has an intrinsic value separate from its sale price.

The intrinsic reward of a job well done.
To have that sense of one's intrinsic worth... is potentially to have everything...
Joan Didion
There's something intrinsically therapeutic about choosing to spend your time in a wide, open park-like setting that non-golfers can never truly understand.
Charles Rosin
form was treated as something intrinsic, as the very essence of the thing
The intrinsic ridiculousness of the situation was too much for his sense of humour.
London, Jack -- Adventure
intrinsic muscles
Its intrinsic value does not exceed thirty thousand francs.
Dumas, Alexandre -- Ten Years Later
I said as I bucked, my pelvis possessing some intrinsic knowledge of the movements needed.
Abraham Verghese -- Cutting for Stone
Had that been automatic, even intrinsic? he wondered.
Nora Roberts -- Blood Brothers
Where were the flares intrinsic to such an operation?
Robert Ludlum -- The Bourne Ultimatum
Indeed, they could stand as a textbook case against the notion that countries are shaped by the intrinsic qualities of their people.
Tracy Kidder -- Strength in What Remains
"Oh, if the thing is intrinsically improper," said Newman, "I won't go into it.
Henry James -- The American
There is nothing intrinsically evil about us.
Henry H. Neff -- The Fiend And The Forge
It would not be wrong to say that the idea of the intrinsic value of childhood dates from the Enlightenment.
Jostein Gaarder -- Sophie's World
More than you think it really and intrinsically worth.
Jane Austen -- Sense and Sensibility
He feels strongly that those activities have intrinsic value in terms of connecting you to another person.
Malcolm Gladwell -- Blink
Pain is simply our intrinsic medical adviser to warn us and stimulate us.
H.G. Wells -- The Island of Dr. Moreau
But since people generally have a reason for going to that much trouble, there had to be a decent intrinsic value involved.
Roger Zelazny -- My Name is Legion
And thus the intrinsic significance of our craft lies in the philosophical fact that we deal in nothing.
Ayn Rand -- The Fountainhead

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