How to Use insulin in a Sentence

insulin

noun
  • Some insulin prices have more than tripled in the last two decades.
    — Marina Pitofsky, USA TODAY, 14 Mar. 2023
  • But the price of insulin can vary widely.
    — ABC News, 2 Apr. 2026
  • No beta cells meant no insulin.
    — Carrie Arnold, Scientific American, 14 Oct. 2025
  • Lila is poised, stylish, and wears her insulin pump with pride on the red carpet.
    — Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 21 Dec. 2022
  • The standard treatment would be to send them home with a lot of insulin.
    — Jonathan Lambert, NPR, 29 Sep. 2025
  • Some have been found to include water mixed with insulin.
    — Beth Warren, The Tennessean, 21 Aug. 2025
  • Drug makers would be forced to provide the insulin for free or face hefty fines.
    — Nicholas Florko, STAT, 1 July 2020
  • That's not the case as anything that spikes the insulin response will break the fast.
    — Bryant Stamford, The Courier-Journal, 8 Aug. 2024
  • Records show jail staff gave him 10 units of insulin at the time but none after that.
    — Kelly Davis, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Mar. 2025
  • If not, there are medicines or insulin therapy.
    — Beth Warren, The Tennessean, 21 Aug. 2025
  • The lack of insulin and the price of it are barriers in Venezuela.
    — Lauren J. Young, Scientific American, 14 Oct. 2025
  • The key is insulin which escorts glucose into the cells of the body.
    — Bryant Stamford, The Courier-Journal, 16 Feb. 2023
  • As a result, many Illinoisans still pay much more for insulin.
    — Kevin Bessler, Washington Examiner, 12 Mar. 2021
  • But the process can also lead to more insulin secretion—and drive down weight.
    — Bethany Brookshire, Scientific American, 6 Feb. 2026
  • We were sent home with vials of insulin and a binder of papers on how to keep my 7-year-old body healthy.
    — Carolyn L. Todd, SELF, 17 May 2022
  • Those were the days of crudely working insulin, crazy meal schedules and no cell phones.
    — Moira McCarthy, Boston Herald, 28 Jan. 2026
  • The body either resists insulin or doesn't produce enough of it.
    — New Atlas, 14 Oct. 2024
  • Without insulin, too much sugar can stay in the blood, which can lead to health problems.
    — Berkeley Lovelace Jr., NBC News, 18 Nov. 2022
  • This occurs when insulin doesn't work properly or there's not enough of it.
    — Hannah Millington, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 Sep. 2025
  • This occurs when insulin doesn't work properly or there's not enough of it.
    — Hannah Millington, MSNBC Newsweek, 19 Aug. 2025
  • Seniors would also have insulin prices capped at $35 a month.
    — Lisa Mascaro, Chicago Tribune, 16 Aug. 2022
  • Once the beta cells are gone, the body can’t make insulin, and blood sugar control is lost.
    — New Atlas, 4 Aug. 2025
  • When blood sugar starts to rise after a person eats, these medicines cause the body to make more insulin.
    — Angel Saunders, People.com, 9 Jan. 2025
  • Too much insulin can cause hypoglycemia.
    — Tim Stelloh, NBC news, 8 Oct. 2025
  • What if Bari forgot to take his own insulin shot, ended up in a coma?
    — Usman T. Malik, Wired, 11 Dec. 2020
  • The cap on insulin for people on Medicare takes effect next year.
    — Berkeley Lovelace Jr., NBC News, 16 Aug. 2022
  • The drugs cause a side effect—a rise in blood sugar—that doctors often treat with insulin.
    — Jocelyn Kaiser, Science | AAAS, 1 Apr. 2021
  • Once insulin moves glucose out of your bloodstream and into your cells, your blood sugar drops.
    — Brandi Jones, Verywell Health, 12 June 2026
  • One of the forms, created by the school nurse, included the wrong insulin dosage.
    — Rebecca Griesbach | [email protected], al, 14 Sep. 2023
  • The liver—along with hormones like insulin and glucagon—helps determine the path that fat takes.
    — Angela Ryan Lee, Verywell Health, 27 Feb. 2026

Some of these examples are programmatically compiled from various online sources to illustrate current usage of the word 'insulin.' Any opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback about these examples.

Last Updated: