He felt an overpowering impulse to spin around and run away, though it was doubtless already too late.

It is a perfectly overpowering impulse, and I have more than once taken advantage of it.

That's the last I heard him yell before we got inside, where I had an overpowering impulse to kneel down and kiss the jail house floor.

He had an overpowering impulse to put into words what she was coming to mean to him.

Your overpowering impulse is to throw your arms around this person and say, Where have been all my life?

She drew herself down upon one of the seats and stared at the ceiling, fighting an almost overpowering impulse to scream.

Bud obeyed an overpowering impulse to reach out and touch the baby's cheek with a mittened thumb.

Anon it fell to the ground, and Marguerite with sudden overpowering impulse, stooped and picked it up.

An overpowering impulse prompted her to keep her beloved secret to herself.

If ever you feel an overpowering impulse - if ever you feel you simply must do something - whatever it is, you're to tell me first.