How to Use insult in a Sentence

insult

1 of 2 verb

• We were greatly insulted by his rudeness.
• They're understandably insulted when no one asks for their opinion on a matter that affects them so much.
• She felt they had insulted her by repeatedly ignoring her questions.
• Don’t insult your brethren with a straight pull of Evan Williams.
  — John Clary Davies, Outside Online, 5 Sep. 2022
• Anything goes, the same way a dear friend can insult your new shoes in a way that is funny, not mean.
  — Paula Throckmorton, Vogue, 16 Dec. 2021
• He was censured for insulting the speaker of the House.
  — Joella Carman, NBC News, 1 Nov. 2023
• The tour’s hypocrisy insults the fans and players who have been its core supporters.
  — WSJ, 15 June 2023
• Once the targets are aware that they’ve been swindled, the fraudsters often insult or taunt them.
  — Cezary Podkul, ProPublica, 19 Sep. 2022
• None of this is intended to insult any sport—or any athlete.
  — Jason Gay, WSJ, 20 June 2022
• To call it tinny is to insult the fine if mundane qualities of tin.
  — Liza Lentini, SPIN, 20 July 2022
• The term was regularly used to insult and demean Black men dating back to the time of slavery.
  — Curt Hogg, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 8 Feb. 2022
• Haslem said to overlook anyone would insult the Heat’s own attempt to climb to preferred heights.
  — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 13 Dec. 2022
• Rioters said the Christian and his friend tore pages out of a Quran, threw them on the ground and wrote insulting remarks on other pages.
  — Chris Pandolfo, Fox News, 23 Aug. 2023
• She was asked to return for season 10 (and again for season 13), but found the offer insulting.
  — Kate Hogan, Peoplemag, 30 Mar. 2023
• He’s insulted that he’s not been invited to speak there.
  — John Sharp | [e-mail], al, 29 Aug. 2023
• The catchphrase on the T-shirt is a meme used by conservatives to insult President Biden.
  — Noah Goldberg, Los Angeles Times, 26 Sep. 2022
• Why insult your family ... er, teammates by telling them to back off?
  — Wayne and Wanda, Anchorage Daily News, 17 Sep. 2023
• Jiyang police didn’t say what Mr. Luo had written to insult the soldiers.
  — Liza Lin, WSJ, 12 Oct. 2021
• Don’t insult Donald Trump but do everything to keep him away.
  — Peggy Noonan, WSJ, 28 Oct. 2021
• There’s a code of honor in tequila; no one publicly insults anyone else’s brand.
  — Jason O'Bryan, Robb Report, 11 Nov. 2023
• To argue Don’t Worry Darling goes off the rails in its third act is to insult the (pretty, sun-baked) chaos that comes before it.
  — Lauren Puckett-Pope, ELLE, 23 Sep. 2022
• But the morning after, Lala shared with Raquel how insulting her comment was.
  — Alexis Jones, Peoplemag, 15 Mar. 2023
• But some lil girl by the name of Elle King apparently cussed and insulted some of Dolly’s fans by not knowing a song.
  — Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 22 Jan. 2024
• That the phrase is actually a way to insult President Biden.
  — Andy Meek, BGR, 8 Nov. 2021
• To deduce from this that your guests intended to insult you is, indeed, making a big deal out of nothing.
  — Jacobina Martin, Washington Post, 25 Sep. 2023
• My sister and her daughters and sons did not deserve to be killed in this way that insults human dignity.
  — Anna Gordon, TIME, 20 Oct. 2023
• While other bricks are engraved with the names of families and tributes — part of a fundraiser for the Athenaeum Foundation — this one insults cheese.
  — The Indianapolis Star, 29 Feb. 2024
• Is there a diplomatic way to get out of this without seeming to insult her abilities?
  — Jacobina Martin, Washington Post, 6 June 2022
• Many of the nearly 40 students who spoke to the board said they been insulted, harassed or threatened since the war began on Oct. 7 and now fear stepping on campus.
  — Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Nov. 2023
• Dont take seriously guys that need to insult or lie to get attention.
  — Washington Post, 25 Jan. 2022

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insult

2 of 2 noun

• The fans hurled insults at the referee as he walked off the field after the game.
• Their decision to cancel the project was an insult to all my hard work.
• They got into a fight over a minor insult.
• The meanness, the insults, the type of behavior that Carter hadn’t engaged in.
  — Danielle Paquette, Washington Post, 28 Nov. 2023
• This may sound like an insult, and in fact many of the finest Mason paintings are very close to the third-rate ones.
  — Jackson Arn, The New Yorker, 17 Jan. 2024
• To usurp the hostess’s chair would be a great show of disrespect for the hostess and an insult to the host.
  — Jacobina Martin, Washington Post, 25 Sep. 2023
• Brady shared he was taught from a young age that being called gay was an insult.
  — Ariana Brockington, NBC News, 8 Aug. 2023
• Another person in the crowd yelled out the same insult to the mayor.
  — oregonlive, 1 Mar. 2023
• The wrong jersey for the wrong sports team can lead to insults, and spiral into street fighting.
  — Amanda Ferguson, Washington Post, 11 Apr. 2023
• Anton tossed a wet rag across the room and screamed insults at the other bank employees.
  — Masha Gessen, The New Yorker, 14 Aug. 2023
• Pretty was not a compliment but an insult in the Lee rule book.
  — Hedy Phillips, Peoplemag, 6 Nov. 2023
• It can be used as an insult or to oppose the opinion of another.
  — Olivia Munson, USA TODAY, 14 Mar. 2023
• The insult leads to shoving, Knight says, and shoving leads to a couple of feeble punches.
  — Ken Armstrong, ProPublica, 22 Nov. 2023
• This is an insult to the people I was elected to represent.
  — Cami Mondeaux, Washington Examiner, 6 Dec. 2023
• The humor can be loud, even shrill, commanding good actors like Bautista and Gillan to shout grade-school insults.
  — A.a. Dowd, Chron, 28 Apr. 2023
• That’s abusing the privilege and could be an insult to your customers.
  — Shep Hyken, Forbes, 19 Feb. 2023
• Those assigned to anger were shown insults about the school’s football team, for example.
  — Katie Mogg, NBC News, 4 Nov. 2023
• The two go back and forth, hurling insults and curses until Redd goes back inside.
  — Sam Stone, Bon Appétit, 6 Sep. 2023
• In a final insult, Washington guard Sahvir Wheeler banked in a three-pointer at the end of the shot clock from about 40 feet out with less than a minute to play.
  — Ben Bolch, Los Angeles Times, 1 Mar. 2024
• In response, Minaj released a track with no shortage of insults hurled at Megan.
  — Moises Mendez Ii, TIME, 29 Jan. 2024
• Still, there’s an odd feeling of wrongness — almost of insult — that Gezo is being packed face-down.
  — Jessica Kiang, Variety, 18 Feb. 2024
• This was less Big Brother than baby brother: a juvenile insult meant to wind up the base.
  — Daniel Immerwahr, The New Yorker, 13 Nov. 2023
• Wow Christie just slammed Ramaswamy with one of the biggest insults that could be used against a Republican.
  — Tori Otten, The New Republic, 23 Aug. 2023
• DeSantis has called that statement an insult to Iowans, and his final TV ad in the state highlights the remark.
  — Alex Leary, WSJ, 11 Jan. 2024
• Agreed, especially since the people who use this insult the most seem to be the ones most offended by ...
  — Brenda Looper, arkansasonline.com, 27 Dec. 2023
• The artists who made them have been reduced here, in what may be this show’s only true insult, into mere raconteurs of women’s lives.
  — Jason Farago, New York Times, 1 June 2023
• In the clip, Benito squares up against his own clone, trading insults in both English and Spanish.
  — Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 20 Oct. 2023
• That might seem like an insult given the optimism surrounding this team, but just look at the Ravens’ schedule and their path in the loaded AFC.
  — Baltimore Sun Staff, Baltimore Sun, 7 Sep. 2023
• Enlarge Matthieu Spohn The term Luddite is usually used as an insult.
  — Diana Gitig, Ars Technica, 13 Jan. 2024
• Critics use it as an insult, while artists are beginning to embrace the label.
  — Christopher Parker, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Apr. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024