How to Use insular in a Sentence

insular

adjective

• Its insular structure is death for outside-the-box thinking.
  — Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 19 Feb. 2020
• Immigrant culture can be very insular and fearful of outsiders, and there’s a good reason for that.
  — Amy Kaufman, Los Angeles Times, 30 Sep. 2024
• For better or for worse, Apple has always been more insular than many of its competitors.
  — Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 17 Dec. 2019
• That kind of insular honesty is rare in any kind of art but particularly perilous in cinema.
  — Jelani Cobb, The New Yorker, 27 Nov. 2019
• Things were so insular that Hoover had friends step forward as survivors and friends on the receiving end of accusations.
  — Kathryn Lindsay, refinery29.com, 29 Jan. 2020
• The civic norm of universal service has given way to an isolated, and insular, all-volunteer force.
  — Dwight Stirling, The Conversation, 2 Mar. 2020
• In the strange, sometimes insular world of wine, 2019 was the year of more tariffs (and now potentially the most tariffs).
  — Esther Mobley, SFChronicle.com, 19 Dec. 2019
• On a cursory listen, pop that reached millions of listeners in 2019 still comes across as sparse, insular and alienated.
  — Jon Pareles, New York Times, 25 Dec. 2019
• What had made the Tuckers, always more prosperous than her family, so proper and insular and tradition-conscious?
  — USA Today, 17 Dec. 2019
• The fate of liberal societies must sometimes rest on the work of cohesive, confident, but small and insular communities of thinkers and writers.
  — Yuval Levin, National Review, 31 Dec. 2019
• That’s because the $300 million voting equipment and services industry is so insular and entrenched.
  — Frank Bajak, The Denver Post, 23 Feb. 2020
• That's because the $300 million voting equipment and services industry is so insular and entrenched.
  — CBS News, 24 Feb. 2020
• The Reagans loved to hold events and the Trumps were known to be insular.
  — Marisa Meltzer, Town & Country, 7 Mar. 2021
• Which is not to say that Antalya is now an insular event.
  — Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 2 Oct. 2021
• Their mandate was not to be insular, but to be a blessing for the entire world.
  — Rabbi Avi Weiss, sun-sentinel.com, 11 Oct. 2021
• The tone of the discussions in most of the circles is insular and defensive.
  — Kaitlyn Tiffany, The Atlantic, 8 Dec. 2020
• Thanks in part to the small core cast and the insular setting, Servant was in the early wave of series to go back to filming.
  — Justin Kirkland, ELLE, 17 Mar. 2023
• In time, the store gained attention in the insular perfume world.
  — oregonlive, 24 June 2020
• Sun Bears are reclusive and live an insular life in the dense lowland forests of Southeast Asia.
  — Fox News, 10 Mar. 2020
• The sports world can be unforgiving and insular in that way.
  — John Canzano, oregonlive, 13 May 2021
• This is not to say that teams that have a microculture are insular.
  — Kartik Mandaville, Forbes, 5 Oct. 2021
• The shock factor was the latest and final sign of a campaign that some criticized as insular at the top.
  — Maya King, New York Times, 13 Nov. 2023
• In the insular, rarefied world of Succession, there are a few girl bosses who reign supreme.
  — Ej Dickson, Rolling Stone, 16 Apr. 2023
• Long known for its insular nature, the venture-capital world has been trying to open up in the past year.
  — Te-Ping Chen, WSJ, 18 June 2021
• Jai Paul was, indeed, alive and well — if not predictably insular.
  — Vulture, 16 Apr. 2023
• And it was being torn between its ancient, insular ways and the modern world.
  — Rachel Donadio, New York Times, 31 Dec. 2022
• Part of that process was keeping our creative team insular.
  — Lily Moayeri, SPIN, 12 Aug. 2024
• The whole thing just struck me as too insular for how sweepingly it was being lauded.
  — Soraya Roberts, Longreads, 10 Aug. 2020
• For all their globe-trotting and polyglot panache, the financiers were no less insular than Tajik matrons.
  — Tunku Varadarajan, WSJ, 8 June 2021
• The other big theme is how industries in intense insular fandoms, like gaming, often have deeply problematic workplace cultures that take root from the very beginning and refuse to let go.
  — Nilay Patel, The Verge, 3 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 14 Dec 2024