He feels very insecure indeed in that quarter, if the truth is told.
It seemed to rise towards them, and in their insecure position on the edge of a crevasse, they were badly placed to resist an attack.
The incident was so far satisfactory that it showed the enormous strength of the rope, and also how severe a shock a man like Almer, standing in a most insecure position, can bear unmoved when he is prepared for it.
Contemporary literature shews how lamentably insecure life and property had become in the days of the later Stuarts, and during the early Georgian period.
The friendship of nations will still be insecure and shifting.
At length, not without much fear of bringing the whole pile toppling down upon himself, he reached the summit, and from an insecure foothold looked across to the firm land.
Could it be that Garda had climbed up this insecure heap, and then sprung across to the firm ground of Patricio beyond?
He had always admired that bookcase, he had never seen one before that was unconnected with associations of step-ladders, or an equally insecure stepping upon chairs.
Mr. Baker left his insecure place, and crawled, with stoppages, along the poop.
He is sorry, but his own nationality and its due protection are concerned; and the Italian nation will beinsecure without those frontiers and those harbours.
As a matter of fact, never since this country commenced to make history has our commercial supremacy been in so rotten and insecure a position.
It was only while my work was insecure that I made a recluse of myself.
Little wonder, then, that primitive men rebelled, disliking the inconveniences arising from their insecure and dependent position as perpetual guests in their wives' homes.
Throwing down the most insecure of the blocks, which fell sometimes on one side, sometimes on the other of the ridge, we gradually advanced.
How painfully insecure should we have considered those steps at any other time!
Taric felt that the dominion he had acquired of the plains would be insecure until he had penetrated and subdued these haughty mountains.
He thought upon the mutability of Fortune, and felt how insecure are all her favors.
To begin with, how CAN things so insecure as the successful experiences of this world afford a stable anchorage?
When he walked (in an insecure and frightened way) his trousers did the most preposterous wrinkles.
If Mr. Thacher means by insecure foundations, those which settle, his assertion, assuming it to be true, has but little weight.
Many arches are failures by reason of cracks, and these cracks are not always due to insecure foundations.
Mr. Thacher says, "No arch designed by the elastic theory was ever known to fail, unless on account of insecure foundations.
No arch designed by the elastic theory was ever known to fail, unless on account of insecure foundations, therefore engineers can continue to use it with confidence and safety.
In Prussia the Governments and people saw, with alarm, how insecure was the constitution of a State which employed so much the bodies and working powers of the peasants, and took so little account of their souls.
But the greater part of the swamp was impassable to a boat and too insecure for foot-travel.
He pushed his way along this insecure foothold until the trees began to thin as if there were an open space beyond.
Life was as insecure as property, and stood at the caprice of men who were slaves to their own lusts; a hasty word spoken in the divan of any one of the satraps, or even a resentful gesture, might provoke the most terrible outrages (viii.
The slippery rock afforded but insecure footing and it was frequently swept by the larger seas.
Wet, cold, hungry, and wretched; they clung to their insecure refuge until day began to break in the East.
Amid this happy state of things, however, symptoms showed themselves which decidedly pointed out something insecure in the foundations.
And after recurring to the insecure position of his son-in-law, he adds: ‘His Holiness seems to me to go to work with great lukewarmness in all these things.
He has no fear and no hatred of the heretic lest he should take from him his own insecure foundation.
All houses seemed to her to be a singularly insecure and even perilous form of property.
He was anxious to be gone, feeling insecure in Schwab's house.
Knowing that Sowinski was actually in the town he felt insecure with such valuable property in his pocket.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "insecure" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
