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
• Of course, what the Palace had not expected was that this meek, insecure woman would grow up.
  — Eloise Moran, ELLE, 31 Aug. 2022
• 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
• No more hot, damp days, and no more being insecure about your sweat patches.
  — Grooming Playbook, The Salt Lake Tribune, 10 May 2022
• The insecure boss—Overly concerned about what others think of them.
  — Rodger Dean Duncan, Forbes, 10 Jan. 2023
• 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
• The passkey argument is that passwords are old and insecure.
  — Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 12 Oct. 2022
• The state bought the Dominion system in 2019, but the plaintiffs contend that the new system is also insecure.
  — Kate Brumback, Anchorage Daily News, 31 May 2022
• What to Consider Tablets are affixed to the case with elastics, which may feel a little insecure.
  — Stefanie Waldek, Travel + Leisure, 20 June 2023
• The pandemic caused the number of food-insecure people around the world to double, to 276 million, according to the World Food Programme.
  — Time, 27 Sep. 2022
• The ministry’s main goal is to assist food-insecure families in the Bloom Township High School district.
  — Melinda Moore, Chicago Tribune, 22 Feb. 2023
• Tens of thousands of Ukrainians have fled their homes, seeking safety in other parts of the country that are now insecure.
  — Sudarsan Raghavan, Washington Post, 20 May 2022
• There’s a moment in the film where Mirren makes a tongue-in-cheek joke about Robbie being too beautiful to feel insecure.
  — Time, 27 June 2023
• What keeps an insecure Evanston salt spreader awake at night?
  — Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune, 16 Nov. 2022
• The assumption is then that the cloud is somehow able to make insecure software trustworthy.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 6 Feb. 2024
• The last municipal election had some issues that made the process seem insecure.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 17 Mar. 2022
• David and Erin Clements claimed that the state’s voting tabulators are insecure and miscount votes.
  — Annie Gowen, Anchorage Daily News, 11 Sep. 2022
• Who wants to deal with someone too insecure to carry a reusable bag?
  — Liza Featherstone, The New Republic, 25 Mar. 2022
• That’s an existing AI that’s still questionable, and the movie makers had enough thought to make a character insecure about it.
  — Shira Ovide, Washington Post, 28 July 2023
• Try Self-Compassion Everybody feels insecure now and then, so figure out what gives you a self-esteem boost and do it.
  — Women's Health, 3 Apr. 2023
• But the family remains at the whims of Puerto Rico’s insecure power grid.
  — Wilma Maldonado, Washington Post, 8 Dec. 2022
• But in this telling, Fry comes across as not just inexperienced but insecure: wet behind the ears, a little timid, wary of crossing lines.
  — Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 6 Apr. 2023
• Isn’t a part of childhood feeling insecure and divining ways to resolve those feelings or else abide them?
  — Mitchell S. Jackson, New York Times, 14 Dec. 2022
• Polling finds Trump unpopular but Biden equally or more so, as the public tires of high prices, an insecure border, and foreign crises.
  — Nr Editors, National Review, 10 Nov. 2023
• The most dangerous thing is an insecure woman, a woman who seeks out other people to give her power.
  — refinery29.com, 11 Apr. 2022

Last Updated: 3 May 2024