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.
  • An insecure young kid who seeks approval from tricks and peers alike?
    — Manuel Betancourt, Los Angeles Times, 2 Aug. 2024
  • These can be insecure and present easy prey for hackers.
    — Mark Sparrow, Forbes.com, 31 May 2026
  • My 6-year-old's teacher says my child is insecure but doesn't act out.
    — Washington Post, 14 July 2021
  • If the bra moves with you or the underwire lifts off the ribcage, the fit is insecure.
    — Matthew Kayser, USA Today, 25 Mar. 2026
  • Defne said, aware that this sounded insecure.
    — Ayşegül Savaş, New Yorker, 24 May 2026
  • 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
  • Food-insecure people tend to have more health problems, which costs us all.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 7 Dec. 2019
  • The problem is, the girlfriend is very insecure about her weight.
    — Abigail Van Buren, oregonlive, 28 Apr. 2022
  • The source of most of our anger is being injured and/or insecure.
    — Terry Pluto, cleveland, 26 June 2021
  • Are people less insecure about food and famine, and thus have their eating habits changed?
    — Manavi Kapur, Quartz India, 5 Mar. 2020
  • The insecure part of me — the part that didn't feel very big or important — latched on to that.
    — As Told To Chris Gardner, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Dec. 2017
  • Windows runs on over a billion devices, many of which are old and insecure.
    — Dan Patterson, CBS News, 29 June 2021
  • Sloane Rangers and boys from the more insecure public schools are excused this.
    — A.a. Gill, A-LIST, 4 July 2018
  • The program is designed to get free groceries to food-insecure homes.
    — Sean Timberlake, Sacbee.com, 6 Feb. 2026
  • But that still leaves a quarter of respondents feeling insecure as the years go by.
    — Lila MacLellan, Quartz at Work, 7 Aug. 2019
  • The partner may have no idea that the woman is feeling insecure or anxious.
    — Gigi Engle, Marie Claire, 28 May 2018
  • Forty million people will die because a man with just enough power felt insecure.
    — Sara Holdren, Vulture, 13 Nov. 2025
  • The dancers were insecure and stiff at first, getting accustomed to the stage and their spacing.
    — Laura Bleiberg, latimes.com, 22 Apr. 2018
  • None may connect to public or insecure home networks.
    — Taylor Goldenstein, Houston Chronicle, 19 Feb. 2026
  • If the parents are out of control, the teachers are paranoid and insecure.
    — Dallas News, 11 Feb. 2020
  • The point isn’t that single people should flee from any whiff of insecure attachment.
    — Faith Hill, The Atlantic, 27 Sep. 2025
  • People want to care without feeling insecure about that.
    — Steven J. Horowitz, Variety, 18 Mar. 2026
  • 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
  • Of course, what the Palace had not expected was that this meek, insecure woman would grow up.
    — Eloise Moran, ELLE, 31 Aug. 2022
  • 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
  • By making people feel deeply insecure and afraid, the fascists could pose as their saviors.
    — Literary Hub, 27 Apr. 2026

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