How to Use insecure in a Sentence

insecure

adjective

• One of the building's rear doors was insecure.
• I feel shy and insecure around strangers.
• The country's borders remain insecure.
• The problem is, the girlfriend is very insecure about her weight.
  — Abigail Van Buren, oregonlive, 28 Apr. 2022
• The Google doc penned by Ellison and shared with the Times paints her as overwhelmed and insecure.
  — Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 18 Sep. 2023
• The source of most of our anger is being injured and/or insecure.
  — Terry Pluto, cleveland, 26 June 2021
• An insecure young kid who seeks approval from tricks and peers alike?
  — Manuel Betancourt, Los Angeles Times, 2 Aug. 2024
• My 6-year-old's teacher says my child is insecure but doesn't act out.
  — Washington Post, 14 July 2021
• Of course, what the Palace had not expected was that this meek, insecure woman would grow up.
  — Eloise Moran, ELLE, 31 Aug. 2022
• The oldest of Boles' sons, Daly was sweet, a bit insecure, soft-hearted, a rule follower and did great in school.
  — Dana Hunsinger Benbow, The Indianapolis Star, 26 May 2022
• And, of the billions of records that have been exposed by cyberattacks to date, many have been due to insecure APIs.
  — Sanjay Cherian, Forbes, 19 May 2022
• No more hot, damp days, and no more being insecure about your sweat patches.
  — Grooming Playbook, The Salt Lake Tribune, 10 May 2022
• And for young children, some are now feeling insecure while at school.
  — Washington Post, 3 Nov. 2021
• Windows runs on over a billion devices, many of which are old and insecure.
  — Dan Patterson, CBS News, 29 June 2021
• The insecure boss—Overly concerned about what others think of them.
  — Rodger Dean Duncan, Forbes, 10 Jan. 2023
• Dan is working very hard on cracking the puzzle of the tape, but Archive 81 is way too insecure to ask the viewer to do any work at all.
  — Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Jan. 2022
• To be a woman in the world is to almost always feel unsafe or insecure to some degree.
  — Paco De Leon, refinery29.com, 13 Sep. 2021
• But 60% fret that the technology could add to their stress and burnout, and roughly the same number feel insecure about their job.
  — Amanda Gerut, Fortune, 31 May 2024
• The price isn’t bad — $36 a year — but an insecure security service isn’t worth a dime.
  — Hiawatha Bray, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Mar. 2023
• The passkey argument is that passwords are old and insecure.
  — Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 12 Oct. 2022
• Iran watchers say the leadership has felt insecure about the high level of dissent in the country for a while.
  — Jackie Northam, NPR, 2 Sep. 2024
• Alex was once the veteran megastar — tightly wound and more insecure than not, but there was some savvy there.
  — Nina Metz, chicagotribune.com, 17 Sep. 2021
• The state bought the Dominion system in 2019, but the plaintiffs contend that the new system is also insecure.
  — Kate Brumback, Anchorage Daily News, 31 May 2022
• What to Consider Tablets are affixed to the case with elastics, which may feel a little insecure.
  — Stefanie Waldek, Travel + Leisure, 20 June 2023
• Like most bullies, Donald Trump is a deeply insecure man.
  — Philip Elliott, TIME, 26 June 2024
• The pandemic caused the number of food-insecure people around the world to double, to 276 million, according to the World Food Programme.
  — Time, 27 Sep. 2022
• The ministry’s main goal is to assist food-insecure families in the Bloom Township High School district.
  — Melinda Moore, Chicago Tribune, 22 Feb. 2023
• Tens of thousands of Ukrainians have fled their homes, seeking safety in other parts of the country that are now insecure.
  — Sudarsan Raghavan, Washington Post, 20 May 2022
• But that also made plain how insecure those jobs are, in addition to being low-paid.
  — Kathryn A. Edwards, WSJ, 14 Dec. 2021
• Moon’s memoir is a self-portrait of an insecure and often confused child, worshipful of the absent father and thirsty for maternal affection.
  — Marc Weingarten, Los Angeles Times, 13 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 29 Sep 2024