Sample Sentences forintrinsic (editor-reviewed)
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It has an intrinsic value separate from its sale price.intrinsic = inherent (built-in or natural)
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Higher salary and other extrinsic rewards will not make her happy if she isn't intrinsically fulfilled by her work.intrinsically = belonging to a thing by its very nature
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Curiosity is an intrinsic part of learning.intrinsic = built-in
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I received the intrinsic reward of a job well done.intrinsic = inherent (built-in or natural)
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It is one of the intrinsic limitations of being young, my dear, that you can never tell when a grand adventure has just begun.† (source)
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It would not be wrong to say that the idea of the intrinsic value of childhood dates from the Enlightenment.† (source)
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At that epoch of pristine simplicity, however, matters of even slighter public interest, and of far less intrinsic weight than the welfare of Hester and her child, were strangely mixed up with the deliberations of legislators and acts of state.† (source)
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She thinks they are an intrinsically evil people, children of the devil.† (source)
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I am sure most people would have thought him an ugly man; yet there was so much unconscious pride in his port; so much ease in his demeanour; such a look of complete indifference to his own external appearance; so haughty a reliance on the power of other qualities, intrinsic or adventitious, to atone for the lack of mere personal attractiveness, that, in looking at him, one inevitably shared the indifference, and, even in a blind, imperfect sense, put faith in the confidence.† (source)
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Unless you're something intrinsically indecent and you don't care.† (source)
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Where were the flares intrinsic to such an operation?† (source)
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Like most things that happened to Harold Crosby, his fall was more astonishing for its awkwardness than for anything intrinsically spectacular.† (source)
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...In a story such as this, the name of the individual is intrinsic.† (source)
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It was a kind of visual fatigue and it came, he knew, from the constant necessity of holding the prescient future as a kind of memory that was in itself a thing intrinsically of the past.† (source)
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It was all very familiar, intrinsic to any faith.† (source)
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There were many, many fine reasons not to go, but attempting to climb Everest is an intrinsically irrational act-a triumph of desire over sensibility.† (source)
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