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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• We were subjected to that insipid stat in the Eastern Conference finals.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 6 June 2022
• As a genre, the romantic comedy has been on its last legs lately, mired in raunch and ribald jokes on the one hand, or insipid wish-fulfillment on the other.
  — Ann Hornaday, idahostatesman, 13 July 2017
• This was given loud voice in the insipid endorsement given to Walker by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel a while back.
  — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 5 June 2012

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