How to Use insular in a Sentence

insular

adjective

• 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
• Simenon was born in Liège and raised in one of the oldest and most insular working-class neighborhoods of the city, Outremeuse.
  — Vince Passaro, Harper's magazine, 22 July 2019
• But the championships are still a big deal, raising the city’s profile in the insular sailing world.
  — Laura Johnston, cleveland.com, 11 Sep. 2019
• 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
• 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
• 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 case gave a rare public view of a deep division in the insular and revered SEAL community.
  — Julie Watson, chicagotribune.com, 2 July 2019
• 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 music is bare and insular, acoustic and detailed, written largely in a one-room cabin in the woods and recorded straight to tape.
  — Sheldon Pearce, The New Yorker, 8 Dec. 2020
• The field of transplant surgery grew insular and desperate.
  — WIRED, 5 Jan. 2023
• A lot of private companies have very small boards that tend to be pretty insular.
  — Lila MacLellan, Fortune, 24 Mar. 2023
• Allegations of abuse that have been insular for so long are now coming to light.
  — Lauren Lantry, ABC News, 14 June 2024
• But that does not mean an insular event, albeit a large one, like the Olympics, is impossible to hold safely.
  — Jeremy Samuel Faust and Michael J. Mina, CNN, 15 June 2021
• This is an insular and guarded world, even more so when threatened by outsiders determined to see the worst.
  — Gentry Estes, The Courier-Journal, 13 June 2019
• Everyone seems to have heard of Braly in the insular world of private aviation.
  — Michael J. Coren, Quartz, 16 June 2022
• Slipping into the insular crawl space of a Ka song felt like getting swept up into an epic poem.
  — Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 15 Oct. 2024
• Could such a thing happen in our fractured, culturally insular day and age?
  — Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 22 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 13 Jan 2025