How to Use incel in a Sentence

incel

noun

• Who, besides incels and shut-ins, wants to spend all day talking to chatbots?
  — Kevin Roose, New York Times, 9 May 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
• Is this menacing incel the beast come to devour Gabrielle?
  — Tim Grierson, Los Angeles Times, 5 Apr. 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
• 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
• An incel who works out, hoping to become more attractive.
  — CBS News, 16 Mar. 2020
• There is also evidence that incels are more likely to harm themselves than others.
  — Rajan Basra, WIRED, 5 July 2024
• 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
• 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
• The links between Trump, Vance, and figures like Tate and the virulently toxic incel community appear to be, at least in part, strategic.
  — David Gilbert, WIRED, 28 Aug. 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
• Any action taken by an incel to improve their appearance.
  — CBS News, 16 Mar. 2020
• 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
• 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
• 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 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
• 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
• 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
• The reveal is this: Everyone in Victory is living in a simulation designed by Frank, who in our real (present-day) world is an incel-like cult leader who has brainwashed men to pay him to live in a virtual-reality simulation of the 1950s.
  — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 7 Nov. 2022
• 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
• As if women didn’t already have enough reason to fear men, the rise of the incel (involuntarily celibate) movement surely represents one of the most disheartening and dangerous subcultures to have sprung from the internet’s rotten skull.
  — Chris Wheatley, Longreads, 6 June 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
• But after falling prey to one too many lecherous interactions, including with her incel stepbrother Brad (Will Connolly), Dawn’s feminine rage takes over and she transitions from cherubic church leader to murderous siren.
  — Brittani Samuel, Washington Post, 20 Mar. 2024
• Jack is seen spending his days listening to online videos from an incel-like internet personality named Frank (Chris Pine), who has created an advanced technology that allows men and women to live inside a simulation of a 1950s utopian community.
  — Zack Sharf, Variety, 24 Sep. 2022
• The mental health issues, isolation, bitterness and misogynistic thinking that often characterizes incel culture can lead incels to align themselves with increasingly extreme beliefs.
  — Aj Willingham, CNN, 16 Mar. 2023
• The incel community fascinated me, particularly in its violence.
  — Ben Croll, Variety, 3 Sep. 2023

Last Updated: 20 Nov 2024