On this page you'll find 10+ example sentences with Insult. Discover the meaning, synonyms such as discourtesy or affront and how to use the word correctly in a sentence.
Insult in a sentence
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Insult meaning
- To be insensitive, insolent, or rude to (somebody); to affront or demean (someone).
- To assail, assault, or attack; (specifically, military) to carry out an assault, attack, or onset without preparation.
- To behave in an obnoxious and superior manner (against or over someone).
Synonyms of Insult
Using Insult
- The main meaning on this page is: To be insensitive, insolent, or rude to (somebody); to affront or demean (someone). | To assail, assault, or attack; (specifically, military) to carry out an assault, attack, or onset without preparation. | To behave in an obnoxious and superior manner (against or over someone).
- Useful related words include: discourtesy, affront, injure, wound.
- In the example corpus, insult often appears in combinations such as: insult to, an insult, add insult.
Context around Insult
- Average sentence length in these examples: 22.3 words
- Position in the sentence: 7 start, 5 middle, 8 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Insult
- In this selection, "insult" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 22.3 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, add, adding, elon, people, worked and reduces stand out and add context to how "insult" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include to add insult to injury and a final insult for making. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "insult" sits close to words such as breakout, carr and guild, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with insult
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
You insult me, I insult you back. (7 words)
Adil insisted: "It's not an insult. (7 words)
An insult is not a substitute for an argument. (9 words)
According to the wave of awakening that is spreading in the world, one day all people will realize the sinister, evil and anti-human intentions of those who insult the Quran," the President noted. (34 words)
After the fight, his father reportedly sided with the attackers, claiming one of the boys had just lost his father and Elon had called him ‘stupid’ (more on this beloved Elon insult later). (33 words)
As the bus drove past the American Center, I remembered a shooting by a junta-linked gunman after the 2021 coup and I wondered why the US tolerated the insult at the time. (33 words)
Example sentences (20)
These people get triggered and say I shouldn’t insult people’s looks or bully people then turn right around to insult my looks and bully me.
This insult worked, not because it reminds the coloured person of white racism, but because the insult “reduces” you to being Black.
You insult me, I insult you back.
Adding insult and injury to more insult and injury, the cops’ sergeant arrived on the scene about 20 minutes into the encounter.
According to him, such a statement needed be strongly condemned since it was an insult to the poor electorates.
According to the wave of awakening that is spreading in the world, one day all people will realize the sinister, evil and anti-human intentions of those who insult the Quran," the President noted.
Adil insisted: "It's not an insult.
After the fight, his father reportedly sided with the attackers, claiming one of the boys had just lost his father and Elon had called him ‘stupid’ (more on this beloved Elon insult later).
Alan added the way the incident was “pushed under the carpet” was an insult to everyone who died and all those loved ones who were affected.
Almost as if to add insult to injury, the thieves scrawled “Kiaboyz” in sharpie on the roof above the driver’s-side door.
A major source of culture shock involved the Fremen spitting on the ground when meeting people, which Duke Leto Atreides took as an insult.
And Jones, in the lead-up to a Test match, getting under the skin of his opposite, ending every preposition and veiled insult with a cheeky grin and the word “mate”.
An insult is not a substitute for an argument.
As a final insult for making this choice, all party members strongly disapprove of the character's decision.
As if to add insult to injury, he is suing under a post-Civil War law intended to protect Black Americans from racial discrimination.
As the bus drove past the American Center, I remembered a shooting by a junta-linked gunman after the 2021 coup and I wondered why the US tolerated the insult at the time.
A Thai court on Wednesday sentenced a lawmaker from the progressive Move Forward Party to six years in jail on royal insult charges.
Being called a lesbian on the street as an insult is something that would have happened 10 years ago, and it's really weird that it's happening again.
Big Apple denizens on radio, TV, social media, in bars and in politics laid into the perceived insult.
Blurring this fact is an insult to millions of Jews and Christians all over the world.
Common combinations with insult
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- insult to 72×
- an insult 53×
- add insult 23×
- to insult 18×
- adding insult 11×
- insult and 11×
- the insult 10×
- insult the 10×
- and insult 7×
- who insult 5×