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How to use insignia in a sentence

17 example sentences · noun

Insignia means a patch or other object that indicates a person's official or military rank, or membership in a group or organization. Example: “The little green men were clearly professional soldiers by their bearing, carried Russian weapons, and wore Russian combat fatigues, but they had no identifying insignia.”

Examples of insignia by meaning

nounA patch or other object that indicates a person's official or military rank, or membership in a group or organization.

  • The little green men were clearly professional soldiers by their bearing, carried Russian weapons, and wore Russian combat fatigues, but they had no identifying insignia.2019 March 18, Steven Pifer, Five years after Crimea’s illegal annexation, the issue is no closer to resolution, The Center for...

nounA symbol or token of personal power, status, or office, or of an official body of government or jurisdiction.

  • He was then invested with the royal insignia: the ring, sword, crown, sceptre and rod.2021, Tracy Borman, Crown and Sceptre: A New History of the British Monarchy, from William the Conqueror to Elizabeth II, Grove Atlantic...

nounA mark or token by which anything is known.

  • Rule 23: “The stress of love makes it hard to eat and sleep.” To these empirical laws we can add the various other insignia of love.2006, P. Goodrich, The Laws of Love: A Brief Historical and Practical Manual, page 49

More sentences with insignia

  • Officers and noncoms did not wear insignia of rank.2012, David Hackett Fischer, Fairness and Freedom: A History of Two Open Societies. From the entry blodger
  • Whichever helm Richard chose to wear, it might have had a keyhole at the top to allowed insignia to be inserted.2008, Josephine Wilkinson, Richard III: The Young King to be, Amberley Publishing Limited, →ISBN. From the entry standard
  • Each one was marked with the Baetika Colony insignia.2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Pregel, Turian Insignia Recoverd. From the entry high-res
  • The insignia on the uniforms was genuine.1985, James Dillinger, chapter 25, in Adrenaline, Plume Books, page 120. From the entry uniform queen
  • In dollardom, the royal insignia is worshipped everywhere.1964, Arthur S. Berger, A Framework for Independence, page 5. From the entry dollardom
  • In the German camps there were criminals, politicals, asocial elements, religious offenders, and Jews, all distinguished by insignia.1951, Hannah Arendt, “Totalitarianism in Power”, in The Origins of Totalitarianism (A Harvest/HBJ Book), new edition, San Diego, Calif.…. From the entry asocial
  • The Colonel’s insignia, while symbolic, have a deeper meaning.1936 June 27, “Symbols”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC. From the entry Roosian
  • In the Bal'aml frontispiece a Mongol figure of authority, with no Muslim insignia, has been placed at the heart of this salvatic vision.2006, Linda Komaroff, Beyond the Legacy of Genghis Khan. From the entry salvatic
  • The young man had been threatened with loss of his third class rank, his “crow,” the eagle in a petty officer's sleeve insignia.2003, Jonathan T. Malay, Seraphim Sky, page 106. From the entry crow
  • At one end of the lot, there’s a row of customized tourbuses in various states of repair, hand-painted and festooned with insignia and flags.1994, David Shenk, Steve Silberman, Skeleton Key: A Dictionary for Deadheads, Doubleday, →ISBN, page 215. From the entry tourbus
  • At about seven o'clock he dresses either in the long blue Chinese robe he wore today or in a military uniform minus all insignia.1960 April 1, “Little Known Facts about President Chiang”, in Taiwan Today. From the entry Gimo
  • Antlers and horns have been the insignia of devils and black magicians from time immemorial, and are worn by present-day witch doctors.1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 19. From the entry present-day
  • Visitors to the site will see that alongside the names, a poem titled Hurrah for the Sea and a cutterman insignia have also been engraved onto the plaques.2011 January, “Cuttermen: In Memoriam”, in MotorBoating, volume 204, number 1, page 13. From the entry cutterman
  • All over Panama, signs with that slogan blossomed, often embossed with a ring of five stars, the general’s insignia, and little white doves flapping bravely zenithward.1990, R. M. Koster, Guillermo Sánchez Borbón, chapter 1, in In the Time of the Tyrants: Panama, 1968-1990, New York: Norton, page 42. From the entry zenithward

Meaning of insignia

  1. noun A patch or other object that indicates a person's official or military rank, or membership in a group or organization.
  2. noun A symbol or token of personal power, status, or office, or of an official body of government or jurisdiction.
  3. noun A mark or token by which anything is known.

Full definition of insignia

Questions about insignia in a sentence

How do you use insignia in a sentence?
Insignia is used as a noun. For example: “The little green men were clearly professional soldiers by their bearing, carried Russian weapons, and wore Russian combat fatigues, but they had no identifying insignia.”
What is a short sentence with insignia?
“The insignia on the uniforms was genuine.”
What does insignia mean?
Insignia means a patch or other object that indicates a person's official or military rank, or membership in a group or organization.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: insignia (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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