How to Use incel in a Sentence

incel

noun
  • And people would be like an incel or an edgelord or something.
    — Margaret Farrell, SPIN, 12 Sep. 2024
  • Who, besides incels and shut-ins, wants to spend all day talking to chatbots?
    — Kevin Roose, New York Times, 9 May 2024
  • The incels came later, but the Jell-O Girls stuff was me and my dead mom getting dragged on Goodreads—less by men than by women.
    — Hazlitt, 12 Apr. 2023
  • Is this menacing incel the beast come to devour Gabrielle?
    — Tim Grierson, Los Angeles Times, 5 Apr. 2024
  • So, what can be done from a law enforcement standpoint to prevent the next incel murder?
    — Jonathan Leach, CBS News, 17 Sep. 2021
  • Boss is the film’s obvious villain, a vaping incel who sees all the young women who work for him as prey.
    — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 7 Feb. 2024
  • That this genius is also a murderer with some very strong incel vibes didn’t occur to me till a lot later.
    — Elisabeth Vincentelli, New York Times, 14 Apr. 2023
  • Robert Aaron Long, the 21-year-old suspect charged with murder for the deaths, was almost certainly not a typical incel.
    — Los Angeles Times, 19 Mar. 2021
  • An incel who works out, hoping to become more attractive.
    — CBS News, 16 Mar. 2020
  • There is also evidence that incels are more likely to harm themselves than others.
    — Rajan Basra, WIRED, 5 July 2024
  • Fincher recently addressed the controversial nature of that turn, as the film has become a favorite amongst incels and far-right groups.
    — Angelique Jackson, Variety, 24 Oct. 2024
  • Some people believed that a bitter incel must have sneaked into the room that night, intent on punishing this man who had built his success on the mendacious myth of love.
    — New York Times, 8 July 2020
  • Acts of mass violence are the province of neo-Nazis, misogynists, incels and other far-right extremists, the activists said — not Antifa.
    — Will Carless, USA TODAY, 5 Jan. 2025
  • It’s eventually revealed that the town is a virtual-reality word, and the real-life Jack is an incel who wears baggy clothes and wants his wife (Florence Pugh) to get back in the kitchen.
    — Vulture, 27 Sep. 2022
  • The links between Trump, Vance, and figures like Tate and the virulently toxic incel community appear to be, at least in part, strategic.
    — David Gilbert, WIRED, 28 Aug. 2024
  • If this trend continues, every election will be an incel election.
    — Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 24 Feb. 2025
  • The Forever Alone Women subreddit welcomes them, but forbids the use of any incel or femcel lingo.
    — Kaitlyn Tiffany, The Atlantic, 12 May 2022
  • Any action taken by an incel to improve their appearance.
    — CBS News, 16 Mar. 2020
  • Thankfully no violence took place, but the notion of Joker as an incel movie remained, to the point where some are calling Phillips’ sequel a middle finger to that crowd and comic book fans.
    — Richard Newby, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Oct. 2024
  • The notoriously violent incel community was also banned and moved on to a hate site of its own.
    — Kaitlyn Tiffany, The Atlantic, 8 Dec. 2020
  • Amid those concerns, the idea that Joker was courting incels was seized upon by news outlets wanting to have a potential controversy to write about.
    — Richard Newby, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Oct. 2024
  • Pitt’s sculpted physique remains a fitness ideal, and his virile performance is worshiped by pickup artists and incels.
    — Stephen Kearse, The Atlantic, 15 Oct. 2024
  • Peter calls Ivan an incel (a portmanteau of involuntary celibate) and a baby.
    — Clare Mulroy, USA TODAY, 24 Sep. 2024
  • In this installment, our Alpha Males discover new antifeminist concepts, like the manosphere and incels.
    — Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 19 Nov. 2024
  • In addition to his unprompted jabs at Rihanna and Megan Thee Stallion, his raps have gradually become the stuff of incel subreddits.
    — Kyndall Cunningham, Vox, 8 May 2024
  • The incel community was known to congregate on Reddit and spew threatening language and violent ideas about women—so much so that, in 2017, the site disbanded r/incels, a group with more than forty thousand members.
    — Carrie Battan, The New Yorker, 20 Dec. 2022
  • The caffeine content is on the lower end compared to comparable brands that hump the esports/incel aesthetic much harder, but the combo of its smooth, juicy mouthfeel and a familiar citrus flavor is a pleasant surprise.
    — Pete Cottell, WIRED, 8 Aug. 2024
  • Reeves is savvy about tapping into the anger festering in the aggrieved margins of contemporary America, and Dano makes a credibly creepy instigator for that flock of insurgents, a seething incel with the smarts and tech skills to wreak havoc.
    — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 28 Feb. 2022
  • TikTok is trying to tweak its algorithm in response to growing concerns that young users are awash in content encouraging suicide and incel ideology.
    — WIRED, 28 July 2023
  • The reveal is this: Everyone in Victory is living in a simulation designed by Frank, who in our real (present-day) world is an incel-like cult leader who has brainwashed men to pay him to live in a virtual-reality simulation of the 1950s.
    — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 7 Nov. 2022

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