How to Use malnourished in a Sentence

malnourished

adjective
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  • Children born to these women are also less likely to be malnourished and die early.
    — The Economist, 5 July 2018
  • There are also cancer patients desperate to restart treatment, as well as the malnourished.
    — Joe Heim and Julie Tate, Houston Chronicle, 12 July 2018
  • Since then, human rights groups have struggled to supply some of the most malnourished areas in the country with food and drinking water.
    — Rick Noack, The Seattle Times, 21 Nov. 2018
  • The patient, who was confined to a wheelchair due to the size of the tumor, was also extremely malnourished because of where the tumor was sitting.
    — Alexandria Hein, Fox News, 2 Aug. 2018
  • Food or drinks can wind up in the lungs due to impaired swallowing, leading to pneumonia, or a person may become dehydrated or malnourished.
    — Korin Miller, SELF, 28 Sep. 2018
  • The group was found by divers Monday, and authorities summarized their condition as malnourished and weak but otherwise in good health.
    — John Bacon, USA TODAY, 5 July 2018
  • Pride, for some like Sim, but bitterness among others who say they were beaten, battered and malnourished during intense training sessions that never seemed to end.
    — Fox News, 6 Sep. 2018
  • Many, but not all, of the whales that washed up appeared malnourished.
    — Gene Johnson, USA TODAY, 9 Oct. 2022
  • Still, the image of the malnourished dog that couldn’t even stand was hard for the family to process.
    — Mary Ramsey, The Courier-Journal, 2 Mar. 2021
  • But it’s one thing to free malnourished dogs who’ve been chained to trees, scarred and bleeding.
    — Paul Solotaroff, Rolling Stone, 4 July 2022
  • All were weak and malnourished, plus covered in fleas and dirt.
    — Kathleen Christiansen, orlandosentinel.com, 27 Aug. 2019
  • The child was likely abused and malnourished, and the cause of death was ruled to be probable homicide.
    — Carol Robinson | Crobinson@al.com, al, 28 June 2021
  • The woman wore filthy clothes, appeared malnourished and weighed about 70 pounds, the complaint said.
    — Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 11 Jan. 2024
  • The family’s dog was also found in the truck, malnourished but alive.
    — Harriet Sokmensuer, PEOPLE.com, 1 Nov. 2019
  • Listless, Fatima was too malnourished to cry, scream, or to even reach for the bread.
    — National Geographic, 27 Mar. 2019
  • Deputies also looked through the window and saw rotting food, trash, a malnourished dog and black mold on the inside of the windows.
    — oregonlive, 20 May 2021
  • The dog was found severely malnourished with burn marks on its back and broken teeth.
    — Anna Bauman, Detroit Free Press, 10 July 2019
  • The body of a malnourished 12-year-old boy has been discovered in a Wisconsin home.
    — Escher Walcott, Peoplemag, 17 Oct. 2023
  • The beaver is said to be malnourished but is expected to make a full recovery.
    — Spencer Neale, Washington Examiner, 10 Mar. 2020
  • The dog appeared to be malnourished, as its rib cage and spinal column were visible.
    — cleveland, 28 Sep. 2019
  • Diesel, then a malnourished and frightened stray, approached Sgt.
    — Kelli Bender, Peoplemag, 1 Feb. 2023
  • In 2012, Amy and her dad helped to rescue two malnourished horses outside of Nashville and got them to safety on Willie's Texas ranch.
    — Emily Krauser, Peoplemag, 2 Feb. 2023
  • The pair were arrested last week after Franke’s malnourished son sought help at a neighbor’s house.
    — Vulture, 27 Dec. 2023
  • The boy had fentanyl in his system, was malnourished, and showed signs of head trauma, an autopsy found.
    — John R. Ellement, BostonGlobe.com, 29 Sep. 2022
  • Many of the whales have appeared skinny and malnourished, scientists have said.
    — Tegan Hanlon, Anchorage Daily News, 21 June 2019
  • Brandy needed a little help: She was malnourished and weighed only 6 pounds.
    — NBC News, 26 Feb. 2021
  • Thilsted began research in Bangladesh in the 1980s while working to improve the lives of malnourished people.
    — David Pitt, Star Tribune, 11 May 2021
  • Gray whales migrate from calving waters in Mexico to feed in Alaska, and many of the dead have been malnourished.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 27 June 2019
  • Over 15 percent of children in northern Gaza are acutely malnourished.
    — Hardin Lang, Foreign Affairs, 1 Mar. 2024
  • Here’s what to know Almost 3,000 malnourished children in southern Gaza are at risk of dying after recent violence cut them off from treatment, the U.N. children’s agency warned.
    — Bryan Pietsch, Washington Post, 12 June 2024

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