How to Use insecure in a Sentence

insecure

adjective

• One of the building's rear doors was insecure.
• I feel shy and insecure around strangers.
• The country's borders remain insecure.
• The problem is, the girlfriend is very insecure about her weight.
  — Abigail Van Buren, oregonlive, 28 Apr. 2022
• The Google doc penned by Ellison and shared with the Times paints her as overwhelmed and insecure.
  — Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 18 Sep. 2023
• The source of most of our anger is being injured and/or insecure.
  — Terry Pluto, cleveland, 26 June 2021
• Sloane Rangers and boys from the more insecure public schools are excused this.
  — A.a. Gill, A-LIST, 4 July 2018
• An insecure young kid who seeks approval from tricks and peers alike?
  — Manuel Betancourt, Los Angeles Times, 2 Aug. 2024
• My 6-year-old's teacher says my child is insecure but doesn't act out.
  — Washington Post, 14 July 2021
• Of course, what the Palace had not expected was that this meek, insecure woman would grow up.
  — Eloise Moran, ELLE, 31 Aug. 2022
• Are people less insecure about food and famine, and thus have their eating habits changed?
  — Manavi Kapur, Quartz India, 5 Mar. 2020
• If the parents are out of control, the teachers are paranoid and insecure.
  — Dallas News, 11 Feb. 2020
• The oldest of Boles' sons, Daly was sweet, a bit insecure, soft-hearted, a rule follower and did great in school.
  — Dana Hunsinger Benbow, The Indianapolis Star, 26 May 2022
• And, of the billions of records that have been exposed by cyberattacks to date, many have been due to insecure APIs.
  — Sanjay Cherian, Forbes, 19 May 2022
• And what about shaping the portrayal of this naive, insecure, and uglier side of Jack?
  — Dan Snierson, EW.com, 6 Nov. 2019
• No more hot, damp days, and no more being insecure about your sweat patches.
  — Grooming Playbook, The Salt Lake Tribune, 10 May 2022
• And for young children, some are now feeling insecure while at school.
  — Washington Post, 3 Nov. 2021
• Food-insecure people tend to have more health problems, which costs us all.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 7 Dec. 2019
• And speaking of threats, Genevieve admits to feeling insecure without her Shot in the Dark.
  — Nick Caruso, TVLine, 20 Nov. 2024
• Windows runs on over a billion devices, many of which are old and insecure.
  — Dan Patterson, CBS News, 29 June 2021
• But Ross was sad, needy, insecure, quick to anger — dark, basically — and built like a jock.
  — Wesley Morris, New York Times, 5 Sep. 2019
• The insecure boss—Overly concerned about what others think of them.
  — Rodger Dean Duncan, Forbes, 10 Jan. 2023
• Dan is working very hard on cracking the puzzle of the tape, but Archive 81 is way too insecure to ask the viewer to do any work at all.
  — Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Jan. 2022
• To be a woman in the world is to almost always feel unsafe or insecure to some degree.
  — Paco De Leon, refinery29.com, 13 Sep. 2021
• But 60% fret that the technology could add to their stress and burnout, and roughly the same number feel insecure about their job.
  — Amanda Gerut, Fortune, 31 May 2024
• The price isn’t bad — $36 a year — but an insecure security service isn’t worth a dime.
  — Hiawatha Bray, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Mar. 2023
• O’Hara’s insecure histrionics play like a slow-motion car wreck in the movie, giving it one of its brighter spots.
  — Dan Heching, CNN, 6 Sep. 2024
• The passkey argument is that passwords are old and insecure.
  — Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 12 Oct. 2022
• And as the insecure Robbie goes down a bad path, he’s forced to literally fight the conflicting parts of his pop-star persona.
  — Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 9 Jan. 2025
• Part of me was insecure about even approaching Sterling with another TV show.
  — Jackie Strause, The Hollywood Reporter, 28 Jan. 2025

Last Updated: 26 Feb 2025