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.
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The insecure part of me — the part that didn't feel very big or important — latched on to that.
—As Told To Chris Gardner, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Dec. 2017
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The problem is, the girlfriend is very insecure about her weight.
—Abigail Van Buren, oregonlive, 28 Apr. 2022
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The Google doc penned by Ellison and shared with the Times paints her as overwhelmed and insecure.
—Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 18 Sep. 2023
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The source of most of our anger is being injured and/or insecure.
—Terry Pluto, cleveland, 26 June 2021
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Sloane Rangers and boys from the more insecure public schools are excused this.
—A.a. Gill, A-LIST, 4 July 2018
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An insecure young kid who seeks approval from tricks and peers alike?
—Manuel Betancourt, Los Angeles Times, 2 Aug. 2024
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The dancers were insecure and stiff at first, getting accustomed to the stage and their spacing.
—Laura Bleiberg, latimes.com, 22 Apr. 2018
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My 6-year-old's teacher says my child is insecure but doesn't act out.
—Washington Post, 14 July 2021
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Of course, what the Palace had not expected was that this meek, insecure woman would grow up.
—Eloise Moran, ELLE, 31 Aug. 2022
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Are people less insecure about food and famine, and thus have their eating habits changed?
—Manavi Kapur, Quartz India, 5 Mar. 2020
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If the parents are out of control, the teachers are paranoid and insecure.
—Dallas News, 11 Feb. 2020
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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
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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
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And what about shaping the portrayal of this naive, insecure, and uglier side of Jack?
—Dan Snierson, EW.com, 6 Nov. 2019
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No more hot, damp days, and no more being insecure about your sweat patches.
—Grooming Playbook, The Salt Lake Tribune, 10 May 2022
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The paradox of power in China is that the stronger the country grows, the more insecure the party feels and thus more prone to bouts of repression.
—Andrew Browne, WSJ, 24 Oct. 2017
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And for young children, some are now feeling insecure while at school.
—Washington Post, 3 Nov. 2021
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Food-insecure people tend to have more health problems, which costs us all.
—BostonGlobe.com, 7 Dec. 2019
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And speaking of threats, Genevieve admits to feeling insecure without her Shot in the Dark.
—Nick Caruso, TVLine, 20 Nov. 2024
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Windows runs on over a billion devices, many of which are old and insecure.
—Dan Patterson, CBS News, 29 June 2021
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But Ross was sad, needy, insecure, quick to anger — dark, basically — and built like a jock.
—Wesley Morris, New York Times, 5 Sep. 2019
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The insecure boss—Overly concerned about what others think of them.
—Rodger Dean Duncan, Forbes, 10 Jan. 2023
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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
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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
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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
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Your friend may be feeling insecure about the level of contact these two people have because her relationship is still new.
—R. Eric Thomas, The Denver Post, 2 Mar. 2025
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The nonprofit found that half of older adults who carried credit card debt feel financially insecure.
—Dan Avery, CNBC, 12 Mar. 2025
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