How to Use insipid in a Sentence

insipid

adjective

• The soup was rather insipid.
• But insipid décor isn’t the only route to a placid space.
  — Yelena Moroz Alpert, wsj.com, 12 May 2023
• One of the worst songs of the '90s, and that is saying something, this pop fluff had some of the most insipid lyrics ever.
  — Steve Baltin, Forbes, 3 Mar. 2021
• This error leads to grainy, insipid meat that just tastes salty on the surface.
  — Jeffrey Gardner, USA TODAY, 1 Apr. 2022
• Putting a black actor in a black-and-white Macbeth is insipid.
  — Armond White, National Review, 25 Mar. 2022
• There was only an insipid flare before the sun dropped behind the hills.
  — Madhuri Vijay, The Atlantic, 28 Sep. 2022
• But the ex-Stoke boss stated that the game was as good as over by half-time thanks to his side's insipid first 45 showing.
  — SI.com, 1 Apr. 2018
• West Ham's list of strikers in the Gold-Sullivan era is, well, insipid.
  — SI.com, 20 Aug. 2019
• Vlatko Andonovski’s team has looked insipid in all three of its games.
  — Rory Smith, New York Times, 4 Aug. 2023
• Edgin avoids the thick of combat, preferring to play insipid songs on his lute.
  — Ed Park, The New Yorker, 31 Mar. 2023
• Everything about this song is criminal, from the awful melody to the insipid lyrics.
  — Steve Baltin, Forbes, 3 Mar. 2021
• Bella wished that the telescope had brought into her sight that night Miss Chu and her lover, instead of the insipid couple.
  — Andy Borowitz, The New Yorker, 8 May 2017
• The question in wet years is whether the harvest will be insipid because the fruits have had their sugars diluted.
  — Washington Post, 24 July 2019
• Even then, the berries that survived to make it to market were bloated, insipid and expensive.
  — Melissa Clark, New York Times, 24 May 2023
• The coach wanted to give a word of encouragement to Posey, but didn’t want to risk distracting him with some insipid cliché.
  — Scott Ostler, San Francisco Chronicle, 10 May 2021
• The Fall Guy blazons the insipid content that the movie industry never tires of selling us.
  — Armond White, National Review, 3 May 2024
• Both sides finished on four points, as Japan slumped to an insipid 1-0 defeat against Poland - and Senegal lost by the same scoreline to Colombia.
  — SI.com, 1 July 2018
• But there are also a fair number of times when Twombly’s contentment just seems insipid.
  — Jackson Arn, The New Yorker, 7 Feb. 2023
• Juve was two years of insipid football that is fondly remembered by no one.
  — Emmet Gates, Forbes, 25 Oct. 2021
• The date palms that develop fruit are females and if there are no male trees around, or if the pollen from the male trees is not available at the right time, insipid fruit is produced.
  — Joshua Siskin, Orange County Register, 25 May 2024
• Each of these cornerstone characters is paired off with a younger and somewhat more insipid mentee.
  — Crispin Long, The New Yorker, 11 Dec. 2019
• Hers, on the other hand, is a seemingly endless timeline: a decade of insipid daily life.
  — Rebecca Makkai, Harper's Magazine, 17 Aug. 2021
• Soave has been typecast as an insipid Italian white, fine for drinking icy cold to quench thirst but with little more to offer.
  — New York Times, 13 Jan. 2022
• Most of the larger tomatoes available in grocery stores have an insipid flavor and mealy texture.
  — Paul Stephen, San Antonio Express-News, 12 Jan. 2022
• Excepting the sung ones, almost every word that ever came out of John Lennon’s mouth was insipid and banal.
  — Kevin D. Williamson, National Review, 7 Nov. 2019
• Publishers just aren’t taking risks and are paying far too much for safe, insipid content.
  — Jesse Fink, SPIN, 12 Jan. 2023
• On the flipside, Brown quickly despises Dicky's plain and insipid lifestyle.
  — Carl Lamarre, Billboard, 16 Mar. 2018
• Unfortunately, our ingénue is rather insipid and can’t do the job alone.
  — S. C. Cornell, The New Yorker, 9 Dec. 2023
• And Wenger chose to look at the positives after a relatively insipid display at the Emirates.
  — SI.com, 3 Nov. 2017
• Back then, American beer culture was dominated by the insipid lagers of the big brewers.
  — Eric Asimov, New York Times, 5 Jan. 2018

Last Updated: 18 Dec 2024