How to Use sixth sense in a Sentence

sixth sense

noun
  • She claimed to have a sixth sense for knowing when someone was about to call her.
  • Does that give you a sixth sense on how to talk with performers?
    — Whitney Friedlander, Los Angeles Times, 12 June 2024
  • Listen to your sixth sense when making plans for later in the day.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 2 June 2018
  • Robertson has a sixth sense for where rebounds will go on the power play.
    — Mark Lazerus, New York Times, 26 Apr. 2026
  • Trump has a sixth sense for power There’s a push and a pull to power.
    — Jonathan J. Cooper, Twin Cities, 6 Sep. 2025
  • The trio seem to have a sixth sense for each other's movements and whereabouts.
    — SI.com, 11 Sep. 2019
  • But Isbell developed a sixth sense about where to find them.
    — Caitlin Looby, jsonline.com, 20 Jan. 2026
  • Usually, though, fan input lingers in the back of the writers’ minds, like a sixth sense.
    — Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 9 Aug. 2022
  • Rosalía can have a sincere desire to know the world via the arts and a sixth sense for what sets people off.
    — Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 7 Nov. 2025
  • In his prime Davis was endowed with a sixth sense for assessing talent.
    — Jon Wertheim, SI.com, 27 Aug. 2019
  • To build this sixth sense, a hunter must focus to the point of ignoring everything else.
    — Outdoor Life, 17 Dec. 2020
  • As Mercury enters Pisces, trust your sixth sense, but double-check your sources!
    — USA TODAY, 14 Feb. 2025
  • In doing so, Collins and his team hope to help each guest access a sixth sense by, of course, opening their third eye.
    — Matt Koesters, Cincinnati.com, 16 June 2020
  • Tarah believes some people are born with a sixth sense, a gift of seeing people beyond the living.
    — Sheryl Devore, chicagotribune.com, 30 Oct. 2020
  • The bad guy in this movie can braincloud the communal sixth sense of the Jedi magi caste.
    — Darren Franich, EW.com, 3 Dec. 2019
  • But definitive proof of whales’ magnetic sixth sense remains tricky to find.
    — Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Feb. 2020
  • Barefoot, swinging empty tomato-paste cans, the kids roamed the streets with a sixth sense for those with generous souls.
    — Lane Hartill, The Christian Science Monitor, 4 Apr. 2018
  • But every time, as if guided by some sixth sense, Whittier or Werder swipes them back in with a gloved hand.
    — Julia Rosen, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Mar. 2022
  • Sixty years of collecting has also given him a sixth sense for knowing when a new vessel will go on the market.
    — Kate Sierzputowski, Chicago Reader, 26 Feb. 2018
  • Hamlin’s success has been built on aggressiveness, composure and a sixth sense at high speeds.
    — Edgar Thompson, The Orlando Sentinel, 14 Feb. 2026
  • Harvin, though, did not have Toney’s ankle-breaking wiggle and sixth sense for defenders closing in on him.
    — Edgar Thompson, orlandosentinel.com, 1 Nov. 2020
  • In plays, imagination, empathy, and a sixth sense for subtext will see an actor of genius through any part.
    — Matthew Gurewitsch, Air Mail, 21 Feb. 2026
  • Your sixth sense — the one beyond sight, hearing, touch, taste and smell — may be leading you to seventh heaven, the very height of happiness.
    — Richard Lederer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Oct. 2019
  • Developing a sixth sense means training your team to notice who is not being included, what is not being said and why.
    — Joyce Talag, Forbes, 25 Jan. 2023
  • Prediction markets are tapping into this sixth sense of humans, giving each of us a role in shaping the story of our world.
    — Mahesh Vinayagam, Forbes, 9 Dec. 2024
  • You’re being invited to tune out from your usual approach to life and tap into your sixth sense to look for messages that are meant for you and only you.
    — Tarot Astrologers, chicagotribune.com, 23 May 2021
  • By record’s end, Garcia emerges in full command of this mercurial spirit world—a high priestess with a synth and a killer sixth sense.
    — Suzy Exposito, SPIN, 6 June 2024
  • The designer’s sixth sense has surely been honed by experience, but perhaps there’s a bit of destiny involved as well.
    — Laird Borrelli-Persson, Vogue, 28 Sep. 2023
  • Yes, my husband could carry more weight than me, navigate by some magical sixth sense, and build a shelter on the spot, but that wasn’t all that mattered on this trip.
    — Caroline Van Hemert, Outside Online, 20 Apr. 2020
  • Many of these submissions came from women and men who claimed to be seers, who experienced precognition throughout their lives as a sort of sixth sense.
    — Ian Beacock, The New Republic, 25 Aug. 2022

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