Online fanfiction communities often debate whether self-inserts enrich or undermine a story's quality.

Many authors include self-insertions to explore personal fantasies and perspectives in their stories.

The technician replaced the worn vinyl inserts in the equipment to ensure a proper seal.

Graduate students studied insertion reactions to understand how small molecules insert into metal–carbon bonds during catalysis.

The botanist carefully measured the leaf insertions on each stem to determine growth patterns.

Please check the insertion times in the log before the database update.

The insertion time of a nuclear device determines how quickly it goes from barely critical to optimally critical, and it is generally much shorter for an implosion bomb than for a gun-type bomb.