How to Use insipid in a Sentence

insipid

adjective
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  • The soup was rather insipid.
  • But insipid décor isn’t the only route to a placid space.
    — Yelena Moroz Alpert, wsj.com, 12 May 2023
  • There was only an insipid flare before the sun dropped behind the hills.
    — Madhuri Vijay, The Atlantic, 28 Sep. 2022
  • This error leads to grainy, insipid meat that just tastes salty on the surface.
    — Jeffrey Gardner, USA TODAY, 1 Apr. 2022
  • Putting a black actor in a black-and-white Macbeth is insipid.
    — Armond White, National Review, 25 Mar. 2022
  • Edgin avoids the thick of combat, preferring to play insipid songs on his lute.
    — Ed Park, The New Yorker, 31 Mar. 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
  • Everything about this song is criminal, from the awful melody to the insipid lyrics.
    — Steve Baltin, Forbes, 3 Mar. 2021
  • Juve was two years of insipid football that is fondly remembered by no one.
    — Emmet Gates, Forbes, 25 Oct. 2021
  • Each of these cornerstone characters is paired off with a younger and somewhat more insipid mentee.
    — Crispin Long, The New Yorker, 11 Dec. 2019
  • 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
  • Even then, the berries that survived to make it to market were bloated, insipid and expensive.
    — Melissa Clark, New York Times, 24 May 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
  • Hers, on the other hand, is a seemingly endless timeline: a decade of insipid daily life.
    — Rebecca Makkai, Harper's Magazine, 17 Aug. 2021
  • 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
  • Publishers just aren’t taking risks and are paying far too much for safe, insipid content.
    — Jesse Fink, SPIN, 12 Jan. 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • Back then, American beer culture was dominated by the insipid lagers of the big brewers.
    — Eric Asimov, New York Times, 5 Jan. 2018
  • Charity matches can be quite insipid affairs with nothing really on the line.
    — SI.com, 16 June 2019
  • We were subjected to that insipid stat in the Eastern Conference finals.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 6 June 2022
  • 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
  • And Wenger chose to look at the positives after a relatively insipid display at the Emirates.
    — SI.com, 3 Nov. 2017
  • What could be more distant and insipid than an endlessly positive and one-sided account?
    — Jack Dickey, SI.com, 30 July 2017
  • There is vast mainstream of insipid choral music that is easy to digest yet ultimately forgettable.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Oct. 2019
  • The manifesto launched this spring was insipid and backward-looking, dusting off tried and discarded ideas.
    — The Economist, 23 Sep. 2017
  • West Ham's list of strikers in the Gold-Sullivan era is, well, insipid.
    — SI.com, 20 Aug. 2019
  • On the flipside, Brown quickly despises Dicky's plain and insipid lifestyle.
    — Carl Lamarre, Billboard, 16 Mar. 2018
  • Excepting the sung ones, almost every word that ever came out of John Lennon’s mouth was insipid and banal.
    — Kevin D. Williamson, National Review, 7 Nov. 2019

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