insides
Americanplural noun
noun
Etymology
Origin of insides
First recorded in 1500–10; inside ( def. ) + -s 3 ( def. )
Example Sentences
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“I had all these books around me that had the insides of bodies,” she recalled, “so there was a fascination with the inside.”
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 30, 2025
"Hunger is not something you can ignore or put out of your mind, it gnaws at your insides with increasing intensity," she continued, adding that hunger is particularly disruptive for children.
From BBC • Nov. 19, 2025
Lining the insides will be around 500,000 Nvidia chips stuffed into dense racks requiring constant cooling.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 17, 2025
Does this mean that humans also have the potential to create sulfurous stinks from our own insides?
From Salon • May 31, 2025
It made the boy’s insides ache, but in a strangely nice way, like how it felt to hold a kitten.
From "Not Nothing" by Gayle Forman
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