Wondering how to use Insult in a sentence? Below are 20 example sentences from real English texts. Including the meaning and synonyms such as discourtesy or wound.
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).
Example sentences (20)
He says giving people a label can actually be an insult and make some people think they are abnormal or defective.
According to him, such a statement needed be strongly condemned since it was an insult to the poor electorates.
But to Mr. Nosie, a former chairman of the San Carlos Apache Tribe, it’s the latest insult in a bitter history.
Jacqueline Wood said the "ultimate insult" was that Bamboo tried to partly blame its customers for the closure.
To really add insult to injury, our governments still spent $11.1 billion in fossil fuel subsidies this financial year.
The Tribal Chief also motivated the often-unhinged Jimmy by saying what an insult it was to see Jey with the tag titles.
Almost as if to add insult to injury, the thieves scrawled “Kiaboyz” in sharpie on the roof above the driver’s-side door.
As a final insult for making this choice, all party members strongly disapprove of the character's decision.
The company turned on its customers, deriding them as frat boys, and the frat boys and similar people rejected the insult.
Adding insult to injury, you can already be an athlete at a university, and your program can still be cut.
To say Golladay is a bust (six catches for 81 yards, $21million salary) is an insult to the word “bust”.
His favorite insult is calling him ‘nothingness’ because that’s what the first character of his name ‘Mu’ supposedly stood for.
Big Apple denizens on radio, TV, social media, in bars and in politics laid into the perceived insult.
To add insult to injury, even beings with complete cosmic awareness couldn't give her what she wanted.
To add insult to injury, personal spending also jumped by 0.8 percent, well above consensus forecasts.
Nobody came here to see their taxes spent on making them jump through more bureaucratic hoops -that’s just adding insult to injury.
Rebecca said that asking for freebies is an 'insult to her' and that many people 'don't value her'.
Those who insult the Indian flag and the Independence Day are roaming free and have no fear of law.
A Thai court on Wednesday sentenced a lawmaker from the progressive Move Forward Party to six years in jail on royal insult charges.
As if to add insult to injury, he is suing under a post-Civil War law intended to protect Black Americans from racial discrimination.
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×
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