How to Use anemic in a Sentence

anemic

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• The band played an anemic rendition of a classic love song.
• The doctor told me I was slightly anemic.
• Investors are worried about the stock's anemic performance.
• Officials worried about anemic attendance at the shows.
• Sales rose an anemic 0.5 percent last quarter.
• The vast number of bites leave horses and cattle anemic and bleeding under their skins.
  — CBS News, 11 Sep. 2020
• Now, however, anemic funding has put the center’s mission at risk.
  — Caitlin Rivers, Foreign Affairs, 2 July 2024
• California's anemic summer rain has dropped 41% in the past 30 years.
  — Seth Borenstein, Star Tribune, 19 Sep. 2020
• California’s anemic summer rain has dropped 41% in the past 30 years.
  — Seth Borenstein, chicagotribune.com, 20 Sep. 2020
• The new poll shows Trump in his best shape in months, though still a long way from even that anemic victory margin against Hillary Clinton.
  — Todd J. Gillman, Dallas News, 6 Sep. 2020
• Around the corner from village chief Xu's office, Yung-hsung Chen nodded at the hiring agencies lining the anemic streets.
  — Washington Post, 10 Sep. 2020
• What Giants fans have to complain about is the team’s anemic offense, which will be without running back Saquon Barkley (knee) for the rest of the season.
  — Mark Heim | [e-mail], al, 27 Sep. 2020
• North Korea’s anemic economy was hit by tough sanctions to punish it for nuclear and missile tests in 2017.
  — Jeong-Ho Lee, Bloomberg.com, 29 Aug. 2020
• Inventory of homes for sale last month barely increased, to 1.3 months, compared to July’s anemic 1.2 months.
  — oregonlive, 25 Sep. 2020
• Business investment was anemic again in 2019, even before the pandemic’s economic blow.
  — Washington Post, 5 Sep. 2020
• Cash is dwindling, plane production is anemic and the stock is heading for its worst annual performance since the financial crisis in 2008.
  — Jessica Mathews, Fortune, 13 Oct. 2024
• The defense hasn't looked bad, but the offense is sort of anemic.
  — Brett Dawson, The Courier-Journal, 28 Dec. 2021
• The kelp was anemic, with pale, stunted leaves or no growth at all.
  — New York Times, 10 June 2022
• The flesh should have a brilliant hue and shouldn’t be anemic or pale looking.
  — Robin Miller, The Arizona Republic, 14 Feb. 2024
• The Democrats lost the House in the 2010 midterm election amid an anemic recovery.
  — Larry Edelman, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Feb. 2021
• Sunday was the best the Cowboys’ anemic offense has looked in 2022.
  — Dallas News, 30 Oct. 2022
• Leaf blades are yellowed, and patches of the lawn look anemic.
  — Neil Sperry, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 19 Apr. 2024
• The anemic offense went from 93rd in the Kenpom metric to 44th now.
  — Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Mar. 2021
• Biogen slashed the price of Aduhelm roughly in half last month amid anemic sales.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Jan. 2022
• The Lions, 0-8 and the only winless team in the NFL, have one of the league's most anemic offenses.
  — Dave Birkett, Detroit Free Press, 12 Nov. 2021
• And anyway, given the anemic state of mainstream modern rock in 2024, the band might as well be the Rolling Stones at this point.
  — Brian McCollum, Detroit Free Press, 1 Aug. 2024
• The Colts have been anemic on offense and porous on defense.
  — Scott Horner, The Indianapolis Star, 29 Nov. 2022
• The work stoppage was a new blow to Haiti’s anemic economy.
  — Time, 20 Oct. 2021
• The team needed to revive an anemic offense that had fallen to the lower-third of MLB.
  — Lindsey Adler, WSJ, 30 Oct. 2022
• Job growth in April and May, while not anemic, fell well below the hopes that more than one million jobs could be added per month in the spring.
  — Washington Post, 2 July 2021

Last Updated: 22 Nov 2024