How to Use insular in a Sentence

insular

adjective

• The Reagans loved to hold events and the Trumps were known to be insular.
  — Marisa Meltzer, Town & Country, 7 Mar. 2021
• Which is not to say that Antalya is now an insular event.
  — Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 2 Oct. 2021
• 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
• The tone of the discussions in most of the circles is insular and defensive.
  — Kaitlyn Tiffany, The Atlantic, 8 Dec. 2020
• Thanks in part to the small core cast and the insular setting, Servant was in the early wave of series to go back to filming.
  — Justin Kirkland, ELLE, 17 Mar. 2023
• In time, the store gained attention in the insular perfume world.
  — oregonlive, 24 June 2020
• The sports world can be unforgiving and insular in that way.
  — John Canzano, oregonlive, 13 May 2021
• This is not to say that teams that have a microculture are insular.
  — Kartik Mandaville, Forbes, 5 Oct. 2021
• 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
• In the insular, rarefied world of Succession, there are a few girl bosses who reign supreme.
  — Ej Dickson, Rolling Stone, 16 Apr. 2023
• 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
• Jai Paul was, indeed, alive and well — if not predictably insular.
  — Vulture, 16 Apr. 2023
• And it was being torn between its ancient, insular ways and the modern world.
  — Rachel Donadio, New York Times, 31 Dec. 2022
• Part of that process was keeping our creative team insular.
  — Lily Moayeri, SPIN, 12 Aug. 2024
• The whole thing just struck me as too insular for how sweepingly it was being lauded.
  — Soraya Roberts, Longreads, 10 Aug. 2020
• For all their globe-trotting and polyglot panache, the financiers were no less insular than Tajik matrons.
  — Tunku Varadarajan, WSJ, 8 June 2021
• The music is bare and insular, acoustic and detailed, written largely in a one-room cabin in the woods and recorded straight to tape.
  — Sheldon Pearce, The New Yorker, 8 Dec. 2020
• The field of transplant surgery grew insular and desperate.
  — WIRED, 5 Jan. 2023
• A lot of private companies have very small boards that tend to be pretty insular.
  — Lila MacLellan, Fortune, 24 Mar. 2023
• Allegations of abuse that have been insular for so long are now coming to light.
  — Lauren Lantry, ABC News, 14 June 2024
• But that does not mean an insular event, albeit a large one, like the Olympics, is impossible to hold safely.
  — Jeremy Samuel Faust and Michael J. Mina, CNN, 15 June 2021
• Everyone seems to have heard of Braly in the insular world of private aviation.
  — Michael J. Coren, Quartz, 16 June 2022
• But steady work in the insular movie industry eluded him.
  — Reggie Ugwu, New York Times, 3 Nov. 2020
• Their reputations in the insular world of Capitol Hill preceded them -- on both sides of the aisle.
  — Phil Mattingly, CNN, 13 Aug. 2021
• The design world can be so insular and snobby, like it’s only talking to itself.
  — Washington Post, 1 Feb. 2022
• But over the years, the race has grown slightly out of its initial insular spiritual shell and has drawn endurance runners from around the world.
  — Devin Kelly, Longreads, 19 Jan. 2022
• Will his next album completely eschew this beef, and follow the more insular streak of Mr. Morale?
  — Angel Diaz, Billboard, 14 May 2024
• Yet the insular worlds of think-tanks and academia have the potential to be echo chambers, as does the human rights community that includes HRW.
  — Time, 29 Apr. 2021
• The drama is much more insular (no bombs or ferry explosions) until the season’s gutting end, which is one of the series’ very best.
  — Annabel Gutterman, TIME, 26 Sep. 2024
• Investing in a siloed or insular manner, or hesitating to invest at all, is not truly investing in the future.
  — Mike Whitmire, Forbes, 18 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 20 Nov 2024