How to Use insular in a Sentence

insular

adjective

• The twins’ insular world is ripped open with the arrival of two white strangers.
  — Robert W. Butler, kansascity, 6 May 2017
• There's lots of ways people can relate to that insular world.
  — Raven Brunner, People.com, 13 Mar. 2025
• The structure is stale and insular, with glaring blind spots.
  — Jim Osman, Forbes.com, 6 Sep. 2025
• 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
• This is not to say that teams that have a microculture are insular.
  — Kartik Mandaville, Forbes, 5 Oct. 2021
• The Reagans loved to hold events and the Trumps were known to be insular.
  — Marisa Meltzer, Town & Country, 7 Mar. 2021
• That the scene about the insular champagne set will, in a few hours, screen to same was not lost on Ostlund.
  — Steven Zeitchik, latimes.com, 20 May 2017
• In the insular world of baseball, their paths have continued to cross.
  — Billy Witz, New York Times, 8 July 2017
• Phillips’s eclectic tastes help his clients stand out in the often-insular fashion world.
  — Christine Whitney, The Cut, 11 Oct. 2017
• In time, the store gained attention in the insular perfume world.
  — oregonlive, 24 June 2020
• Jai Paul was, indeed, alive and well — if not predictably insular.
  — Vulture, 16 Apr. 2023
• The whole thing just struck me as too insular for how sweepingly it was being lauded.
  — Soraya Roberts, Longreads, 10 Aug. 2020
• Allegations of abuse that have been insular for so long are now coming to light.
  — Lauren Lantry, ABC News, 14 June 2024
• A lot of private companies have very small boards that tend to be pretty insular.
  — Lila MacLellan, Fortune, 24 Mar. 2023
• And it was being torn between its ancient, insular ways and the modern world.
  — Rachel Donadio, New York Times, 31 Dec. 2022
• The industry has long been too homogenous, too insular and too slow to evolve.
  — Heidi Stevens, Chicago Tribune, 1 Aug. 2025
• Is the dream of a better world achieved through insular, and cautious self-preservation?
  — Richard Newby, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 June 2019
• 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
• 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
• The tone of the discussions in most of the circles is insular and defensive.
  — Kaitlyn Tiffany, The Atlantic, 8 Dec. 2020
• 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
• But the insular nature of Blomkamp’s films may be part of the problem in terms of their reception.
  — Richard Newby, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 July 2018
• In the insular, rarefied world of Succession, there are a few girl bosses who reign supreme.
  — Ej Dickson, Rolling Stone, 16 Apr. 2023
• 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
• For all their globe-trotting and polyglot panache, the financiers were no less insular than Tajik matrons.
  — Tunku Varadarajan, WSJ, 8 June 2021
• Abloh’s ambition was to open the doors of the insular world of design to younger generations.
  — Joelle Diderich, Footwear News, 30 Sep. 2025
• Give Schmidt better voices — not the same ones, preaching the same, tired, failing stuff, on the same insular loop.
  — Sean Keeler, Denver Post, 11 May 2025
• What once felt like insular cult music has become newly communal.
  — Jonathan Cohen, SPIN, 13 May 2026
• The result feels expansive rather than insular.
  — Olga Garcia-Mayoral, Miami Herald, 19 May 2026
• Everyone seems to have heard of Braly in the insular world of private aviation.
  — Michael J. Coren, Quartz, 16 June 2022