Example sentences for: insipid

How can you use “insipid” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Conversely, who remembers the bass clef lines and spaces (with, respectively, the insipid “ G reat B ig D ogs F ight A nimals” and “ A ll C ars E at G as” )? The treble clef lines are only a bit more memorable (“ E very G ood B oy D oes F ine” or “ E very G rizzly B ear D igs F igs” ); its spaces' notes, at least, crisply spell face . Who knows how many musical aspirations have been dashed against the bass clef, for want of adequate mnemonics?

  • Odd man out: Stephen Hunter of the Washington Post , so unfazed by the subject matter as to call the film "insipid" and "mild."

  • Having just returned from Pakistan, I am very seriously frightened, despite today's insipid headlines saying that things are peaceful; if you'd seen what I'd just seen, you'd feel the same way.

  • To quote Woodward: "Granting that 'the wishes of democracy are capricious, its instruments rude, its laws imperfect,' granting as well an appalling list of shortcomings that he abhorred--minds 'so petty, so insipid, so crowded with paltry interests'--Tocqueville still regarded democracy 'not as the best, but as the only means of preserving freedom.

  • President Jiang Zemin, the first Chinese head of state ever to visit Britain, arrived in London Monday to find the Daily Telegraph describing him in a profile as an "insipid man who inspires indifference."


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