How to Use insipid in a Sentence

insipid

adjective
  • The soup was rather insipid.
  • This error leads to grainy, insipid meat that just tastes salty on the surface.
    — Jeffrey Gardner, USA TODAY, 1 Apr. 2022
  • There was only an insipid flare before the sun dropped behind the hills.
    — Madhuri Vijay, The Atlantic, 28 Sep. 2022
  • Putting a black actor in a black-and-white Macbeth is insipid.
    — Armond White, National Review, 25 Mar. 2022
  • Vlatko Andonovski’s team has looked insipid in all three of its games.
    — Rory Smith, New York Times, 4 Aug. 2023
  • But the absence of those elements isn’t what breaks this insipid biopic.
    — Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 21 Apr. 2026
  • Juve was two years of insipid football that is fondly remembered by no one.
    — Emmet Gates, Forbes, 25 Oct. 2021
  • Edgin avoids the thick of combat, preferring to play insipid songs on his lute.
    — Ed Park, The New Yorker, 31 Mar. 2023
  • The blandly positive lyrics seemed even more insipid amid all the bedroom jams.
    — Eric Webb, Austin American-Statesman, 1 June 2024
  • But her second feature, while quite slick, has the insipid feel of a Lifetime movie.
    — David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2019
  • Doesn’t that sound like the premise for an insipid romantic comedy?
    — Mick Lasalle, San Francisco Chronicle, 29 Apr. 2024
  • Each of these cornerstone characters is paired off with a younger and somewhat more insipid mentee.
    — Crispin Long, The New Yorker, 11 Dec. 2019
  • Even then, the berries that survived to make it to market were bloated, insipid and expensive.
    — Melissa Clark, New York Times, 24 May 2023
  • Everything about this song is criminal, from the awful melody to the insipid lyrics.
    — Steve Baltin, Forbes, 3 Mar. 2021
  • Publishers just aren’t taking risks and are paying far too much for safe, insipid content.
    — Jesse Fink, SPIN, 12 Jan. 2023
  • But there are also a fair number of times when Twombly’s contentment just seems insipid.
    — Jackson Arn, The New Yorker, 7 Feb. 2023
  • Unfortunately, our ingénue is rather insipid and can’t do the job alone.
    — S. C. Cornell, The New Yorker, 9 Dec. 2023
  • The question in wet years is whether the harvest will be insipid because the fruits have had their sugars diluted.
    — Washington Post, 24 July 2019
  • One of the worst songs of the '90s, and that is saying something, this pop fluff had some of the most insipid lyrics ever.
    — Steve Baltin, Forbes, 3 Mar. 2021
  • Most of the larger tomatoes available in grocery stores have an insipid flavor and mealy texture.
    — Paul Stephen, San Antonio Express-News, 12 Jan. 2022
  • But the ex-Stoke boss stated that the game was as good as over by half-time thanks to his side's insipid first 45 showing.
    — SI.com, 1 Apr. 2018
  • West Ham's list of strikers in the Gold-Sullivan era is, well, insipid.
    — SI.com, 20 Aug. 2019
  • Soave has been typecast as an insipid Italian white, fine for drinking icy cold to quench thirst but with little more to offer.
    — New York Times, 13 Jan. 2022
  • But Lelio opts for an insipid neutrality that does a disservice to both.
    — Peter Keough, BostonGlobe.com, 2 May 2018
  • The manifesto launched this spring was insipid and backward-looking, dusting off tried and discarded ideas.
    — The Economist, 23 Sep. 2017
  • The coach wanted to give a word of encouragement to Posey, but didn’t want to risk distracting him with some insipid cliché.
    — Scott Ostler, San Francisco Chronicle, 10 May 2021
  • Bella wished that the telescope had brought into her sight that night Miss Chu and her lover, instead of the insipid couple.
    — Andy Borowitz, The New Yorker, 8 May 2017
  • Excusing them as means to achieve preferred policy outcomes is beyond insipid.
    — Chris Stirewalt, The Hill, 28 Apr. 2026
  • The Fall Guy blazons the insipid content that the movie industry never tires of selling us.
    — Armond White, National Review, 3 May 2024
  • The date palms that develop fruit are females and if there are no male trees around, or if the pollen from the male trees is not available at the right time, insipid fruit is produced.
    — Joshua Siskin, Orange County Register, 25 May 2024

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