Example sentences for: insular

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

  • A European foreign and security policy, it said, would be insular and isolationist and would invariably prefer appeasement to intervention.

  • As the sky-high pay for today's CEOs compared with their counterparts of twenty years ago demonstrates, the insular nature of boards of directors means that purely economic considerations do not always prevail.

  • The conclusion to be drawn here is something of a zoological or at any rate ethnic nature: the bear is far more familiar in continental Europe than in insular Britain.

  • In insular, media-obsessed, buzz-driven markets like New York, I wonder whether some critics, especially newcomers on the make, don't position their reviews primarily to position themselves.

  • Varadero occupies a long, thin insular spit of sand, with water on both sides and a bridge to the mainland.


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