How to Use incel in a Sentence

incel

noun

• And people would be like an incel or an edgelord or something.
  — Margaret Farrell, SPIN, 12 Sep. 2024
• Who, besides incels and shut-ins, wants to spend all day talking to chatbots?
  — Kevin Roose, New York Times, 9 May 2024
• So, what can be done from a law enforcement standpoint to prevent the next incel murder?
  — Jonathan Leach, CBS News, 17 Sep. 2021
• That this genius is also a murderer with some very strong incel vibes didn’t occur to me till a lot later.
  — Elisabeth Vincentelli, New York Times, 14 Apr. 2023
• Boss is the film’s obvious villain, a vaping incel who sees all the young women who work for him as prey.
  — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 7 Feb. 2024
• If this trend continues, every election will be an incel election.
  — Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 24 Feb. 2025
• There is also evidence that incels are more likely to harm themselves than others.
  — Rajan Basra, WIRED, 5 July 2024
• The notoriously violent incel community was also banned and moved on to a hate site of its own.
  — Kaitlyn Tiffany, The Atlantic, 8 Dec. 2020
• Fincher recently addressed the controversial nature of that turn, as the film has become a favorite amongst incels and far-right groups.
  — Angelique Jackson, Variety, 24 Oct. 2024
• The incels came later, but the Jell-O Girls stuff was me and my dead mom getting dragged on Goodreads—less by men than by women.
  — Hazlitt, 12 Apr. 2023
• Some people believed that a bitter incel must have sneaked into the room that night, intent on punishing this man who had built his success on the mendacious myth of love.
  — New York Times, 8 July 2020
• Peter calls Ivan an incel (a portmanteau of involuntary celibate) and a baby.
  — Clare Mulroy, USA TODAY, 24 Sep. 2024
• Amid those concerns, the idea that Joker was courting incels was seized upon by news outlets wanting to have a potential controversy to write about.
  — Richard Newby, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Oct. 2024
• Robert Aaron Long, the 21-year-old suspect charged with murder for the deaths, was almost certainly not a typical incel.
  — Los Angeles Times, 19 Mar. 2021
• Themes of family, cyber bullying and incel culture are interwoven and the show has been widely praised for each episode being filmed in one continuous shot.
  — Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 21 Mar. 2025
• In this installment, our Alpha Males discover new antifeminist concepts, like the manosphere and incels.
  — Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 19 Nov. 2024
• The Forever Alone Women subreddit welcomes them, but forbids the use of any incel or femcel lingo.
  — Kaitlyn Tiffany, The Atlantic, 12 May 2022
• Acts of mass violence are the province of neo-Nazis, misogynists, incels and other far-right extremists, the activists said — not Antifa.
  — Will Carless, USA TODAY, 5 Jan. 2025
• TikTok is trying to tweak its algorithm in response to growing concerns that young users are awash in content encouraging suicide and incel ideology.
  — WIRED, 28 July 2023
• Thankfully no violence took place, but the notion of Joker as an incel movie remained, to the point where some are calling Phillips’ sequel a middle finger to that crowd and comic book fans.
  — Richard Newby, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Oct. 2024
• Adolescence can be understood, very broadly, as a dark warning about the potential ramifications of incel culture and the radicalization of young men online.
  — Emma Specter, Vogue, 17 Mar. 2025
• The caffeine content is on the lower end compared to comparable brands that hump the esports/incel aesthetic much harder, but the combo of its smooth, juicy mouthfeel and a familiar citrus flavor is a pleasant surprise.
  — Pete Cottell, WIRED, 8 Aug. 2024
• It’s eventually revealed that the town is a virtual-reality word, and the real-life Jack is an incel who wears baggy clothes and wants his wife (Florence Pugh) to get back in the kitchen.
  — Vulture, 27 Sep. 2022
• In addition to his unprompted jabs at Rihanna and Megan Thee Stallion, his raps have gradually become the stuff of incel subreddits.
  — Kyndall Cunningham, Vox, 8 May 2024
• That same year, a domestic terrorism threat assessment produced by the Texas Department of Public Safety described incel violence as a serious risk.
  — Seyward Darby, Longreads, 25 Mar. 2024
• Reeves is savvy about tapping into the anger festering in the aggrieved margins of contemporary America, and Dano makes a credibly creepy instigator for that flock of insurgents, a seething incel with the smarts and tech skills to wreak havoc.
  — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 28 Feb. 2022
• The incel community was known to congregate on Reddit and spew threatening language and violent ideas about women—so much so that, in 2017, the site disbanded r/incels, a group with more than forty thousand members.
  — Carrie Battan, The New Yorker, 20 Dec. 2022
• The detractors objected to its incel depiction of Arthur Fleck as a morally dubious, if not downright irresponsible, attempt to find compassion for the kind of aggrieved masculinity that breeds gun violence.
  — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 Sep. 2024
• Yet gamers are often considered particularly prone to conventional if not reactionary gender views owing to the cliché of the basement-dwelling incel believed to dislike strong females, such as Forspoken’s new protagonist Frey.
  — Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 8 Feb. 2023
• According to the Anti-Defamation League, a common point of grievance among incels is that 80% of women are attracted to just 20% of men, a sentiment that arises on several occasions in the series.
  — Randall Colburn, EW.com, 17 Mar. 2025