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How to use insipid in a sentence

18 example sentences · adjective

Insipid means unappetizingly flavorless. Example: “The diners were disappointed with the plain, insipid soup they were served.”

Examples of insipid by meaning

adjectiveUnappetizingly flavorless.

  • The diners were disappointed with the plain, insipid soup they were served.
  • I confined myself to a pleasant Brewdog Ale and a glass of slightly insipid wine.2025 June 11, Christian Wolmar, “First Class delights with an occasional pang of hunger”, in RAIL, number 1037, page 34

adjectiveFlat; lacking character or definition.

  • The textbook had a most insipid presentation of the controversy.

More sentences with insipid

  • Recondite adventures in the insipid, the artsome, the equine, do not amuse my servant or myself.2007, Bonnie Kime Scott, Gender in Modernism. From the entry artsome
  • Such a hope would begladden the heart of the most insipid.2005, Gregory Claeys, Owenite Socialism: 1832-1837. From the entry begladden
  • Udders dry, grain reserves shot – even the insipid nitta pods in short supply.1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin, published 2006, page 65. From the entry nitta
  • Rum baba, an oozy, syrupy‐sweet standard that has always seemed soggy and insipid to me, still does.1977 December 14, Mimi Sheraton, “For New Bakeries, the Sweet Smell of Success”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times…. From the entry rum baba
  • Fruit and syrup of 20°, 30° balling was found to be insipid and sour.1956, West Punjab Fruit Journal - Volumes 20-22, page 17. From the entry balling
  • Proud of yourself, for ruining Mummy′s life?” I was careful to use the insipid falsetto the experts commend.2003, Lionel Shriver, We Need to Talk About Kevin, published 2010, unnumbered page. From the entry mummy
  • Dried, this is the bread that they eat; it has no taste and is perfectly insipid but is wholesome and nourishing.2002, José de Acosta, Walter D. Mignolo, “Of Yucca and Cassava, and Potatoes and Chuño and Rice”, in Frances López-Morillas, transl.…. From the entry yucca
  • Egyptian architecture consequently was cold, monotonist, and insipid.2001, Jóhann Páll Árnason, Peter Murphy, Agon, Logos, Polis: The Greek Achievement and Its Aftermath, page 224. From the entry monotonist
  • I binged the third season of an insipid K-drama whose plot I could, and did, predict aloud as I brushed the cat’s increasingly matted fur.2023, C Pam Zhang, Land of Milk and Honey, Hutchinson Heinemann, page 71. From the entry K-drama
  • And just as Rockism could be negated, so too could a Popism made of insipid disco pop, easy-listening reggae and increasingly daft glam rock.2017, Ben Highmore, Cultural Feelings: Mood, Mediation and Cultural Politics, page 122. From the entry popism
  • Back home the portrait of Trujillo, which every good citizen had hanging in his house, beamed down on him with insipid, viperous benevolence.2007, Junot Díaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Faber and Faber (2009), page 230. From the entry viperous
  • I was wolving down great chunks of Mother Young’s bread, smeared with guava jam, but hardly touched the rather insipid, synthetic “tea.”1935 December 1, Alexander MacDonald, “Pitcairn today: A sequel to Mutiny”, in The Honolulu Advertiser, 80th year, number 17,551…. From the entry wolve down
  • Although you may be offered insipid tourist-oriented fare in larger hotels, local cooking - meaning anything from Indian curry to Creole oil-down, or Spanish-style pastelles - still reigns supreme.2002, Nicky Agate, The Caribbean, →ISBN, page 726. From the entry oil-down
  • For undoubtedly thousands of Americans unquestioningly accept and down this insipid beverage and as far as I know there’s never been any petition presented at Washington in protest.1941, Cornelia Otis Skinner, “In Quest of Tea”, in Soap Behind the Ears, New York: Dodd, Mead, page 149. From the entry fussbutton
  • The mind having taken a different turn, the fondness for condiments wore away, and I now relished the boiled spinach which in Richmond tasted insipid, cooked without condiments.1927–1929, M[ohandas] K[aramchand] Gandhi, chapter XVII, in The Story of My Experiments with Truth: Translated from the Original in…. From the entry seat

Meaning of insipid

  1. adjective Unappetizingly flavorless.
  2. adjective Flat; lacking character or definition.

Full definition of insipid

Questions about insipid in a sentence

How do you use insipid in a sentence?
Insipid is used as an adjective. For example: “The diners were disappointed with the plain, insipid soup they were served.”
What is a short sentence with insipid?
“Egyptian architecture consequently was cold, monotonist, and insipid.”
What does insipid mean?
Insipid means unappetizingly flavorless.

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