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Example sentences for "insensate"

Lexicographically close words:
insects; insecure; insecurely; insecurity; insemination; insensibility; insensible; insensibly; insensitive; insensitiveness
  1. The Piankeshaw, taking post directly in front of the hole, began to utter many mournful ejaculations, which were addressed to the insensate rock, or perhaps to the equally insensate corpse of a comrade concealed within.

  2. She knew its whims, corrected its errors, brought to her insensate machine the complement of brain that made it trustworthy.

  3. Insensate law fits the punishment to the crime rather than to the criminal, as though a doctor should only treat disease, without thought of the patient enduring it.

  4. Bands of young men fought in the streets and danced in rounds in the squares, as if manifesting some secret hope of pleasure and some insensate joy, grievous to the upright heart.

  5. And in modern war, where men are organized in masses and converted into insensate machines, there is really nothing heroic or romantic or in any way calculated to appeal to the imagination.

  6. His boiling blood and his insensate ambition are his only oracles.

  7. The whole interest of the play turns upon the portraiture of his morbid, insensate jealousy.

  8. They did not realize that a free press could develop a sort of constitutional venality due to its relations with advertisers, and that large newspaper proprietors could become buccaneers of opinion and insensate wreckers of good beginnings.

  9. Moreover, because of his general illiteracy, he was an intense individualist: his was the insensate rivalry of the vulgar mind; he hated his fellow manufacturers about as much as he hated his labour and his customers.

  10. He is more like a raving madman than ever, much more feeble in mind and body than before this insensate expedition to Germany.

  11. It is the law of affinity in matter, of selection in atoms, and whispers to the body the intuitions of the Spirit and guides insensate worlds to do the will of Creative Omnipotence.

  12. I struggled to make a dumb protest against the insensate folly which was hurrying me to infallible destruction, without success.

  13. She was, as usual after such an orgie, rather a devil than a human being, drunk with an insensate frenzy, delirious with inhuman longings.

  14. In this insensate and pitiless image, in this innocent and dangerous idol, the eroticism and terror of mankind were depicted.

  15. In this insensate rivalry, which ruined at the same time the commerce of England and of the world, the Cabinet of London had taken no care to modify, in favor of the United States, the rigor of its ordinances.

  16. Disciples of the cult of insensate haste, of self-assertion and advertisement, have pretty well conquered the civilised world; but in Spain they find no foothold, and we glory to think they never will.

  17. Vivillo, on hearing of this insensate murder by his second, insisted on the restitution of their money to the aged pair, expelled Pernales from his gang, and threatened him with death should he dare again to cross his path.

  18. Out of this insensate hell come the impossible statues that grin about our cities.

  19. Mr. Clark, he is now making the poor man appear grossly inconsistent, and both an Erastian and an Intrusionist, simply by acting through the insensate carcase.

  20. One had to have his wits about him, for it was a battle in which mighty blows were struck, on one side, and in which cunning was used on the other side--a struggle between insensate force and intelligence.

  21. Had his insensate craving for gold and power led him to neglect those other things in life which contribute more truly to man's happiness?

  22. The Little Englander, in his insensate altruism, dreamed of these three nations entirely independent of England, except in the trivial matter of financial support.

  23. But there is an immeasurable difference between any of those ideas and that of the orchid producing its parts spontaneously under the operation of insensate physical law, whatever that may be, alone.

  24. But when evolutionists, in their zeal to get rid of creative intervention, trace all things to the interaction of insensate causes, they fall into the absurdity of believing in absolute unmitigated chance as the cause of perfect order.

  25. They had the fullest confidence that the insensate cry raised against them would eventually subside, and that truth would again prevail.

  26. He had suddenly a fearful wish to pass the archway where he had placed the body; a fearful wish that had no sense, no end in view, no anything; just an insensate craving to see the dark place again.

  27. An insensate impulse to remain seated and argue the point fought in Bob Pillin with an impulse to leap out, shake his fist in at the window, and walk off.


  28. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "insensate" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    anarchic; anesthetic; angry; asleep; benumbed; bloodless; blustering; brainless; brute; callous; chaotic; dead; dull; dumb; fatuous; foolish; frantic; frenzied; furious; hard; headless; hellish; ignorant; impolitic; imprudent; inadvisable; inanimate; inconsiderate; indiscreet; inept; inert; inexpedient; injudicious; insensate; insensible; insensitive; insentient; irrational; lifeless; mad; mindless; misguided; mute; numb; obdurate; obtuse; raging; raving; reasonless; reckless; senseless; shortsighted; simple; soulless; storming; stormy; tempestuous; thoughtless; troublous; tumultuous; turbulent; unadvised; unconscious; unconsidered; undiscerning; unfeeling; unfelt; unintelligent; unreasonable; unreasoning; unreflecting; unseeing; unsound; unthinking; unwise; uproarious; wild; witless