How to Use food insecure in a Sentence

food insecure

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• That amounts to one in every eight people in the state being food insecure — and that was in 2019.
  — Sarah Bowman, The Indianapolis Star, 23 Dec. 2021
• Asia and Africa are home to the majority of people in the world who are food insecure.
  — Washington Post, 23 June 2021
• Three out of 10 people with kids are food insecure right now.
  — The Atlantic, 26 Oct. 2020
• In San Diego, more than a half-million adults — 1 in 4 — are food insecure, as are 1 in 3 children.
  — Steven P. Dinkin, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Dec. 2022
• The odds of being food insecure also dropped by one-third.
  — Sara Moniuszko, CBS News, 29 Aug. 2023
• Many of the worst impacts of food prices are being felt in countries that are already food insecure.
  — Adam Taylor, Washington Post, 20 May 2022
• For many of the Northside staffers, helping feed the food insecure is a way to ensure better learning in the classroom.
  — Tom Orsborn, ExpressNews.com, 10 July 2020
• Adults whose grocery costs increased a lot were about twice as likely as other adults to be food insecure, the study found.
  — Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 21 Mar. 2023
• Since the organization was born in March, Feed Louisville has served roughly 7,000 meals per month to the homeless and the food insecure.
  — Andre Toran, The Courier-Journal, 21 Jan. 2021
• While the number of meals being distributed to food insecure Hoosiers doubled, so did the need.
  — Holly V. Hays, The Indianapolis Star, 9 Dec. 2021
• What's worse, 33% of households with single moms are food insecure.
  — Journal Sentinel, 11 Jan. 2024
• One in eight Minnesotans are food insecure—up from 1 in 11 before the pandemic—and lines of cars clog traffic near food pantries.
  — Elizabeth Merrill, History & Culture, 21 Dec. 2020
• Afar and Amhara are food insecure to some degree and in need of food aid, according to the UN's latest analysis.
  — Maryanne Murray Buechner, Forbes, 15 June 2021
• Throughout North Texas, one in four children is food insecure.
  — Dallas News, 1 July 2021
• School meals are a consistent food source for students who are food insecure.
  — Eryka Forquer, The Arizona Republic, 16 Sep. 2022
• In the beginning, for example, we were focused on how to feed folks in the industry who were food insecure.
  — Jenny Feldt, Bon Appétit, 19 May 2021
• Proceeds benefit the North Texas Food Bank and help thousands of people who are food insecure.
  — Dallas News, 30 Oct. 2020
• Hilary Seligman: The most recent data suggests that about 1 in 10 households in the U.S. are food insecure.
  — Hilary Seligman, The Conversation, 15 June 2023
• The report also found that one in four low-income households remained food insecure in 2021.
  — Los Angeles Times, 1 Aug. 2022
• So, so the thing that’s still completely is that there are 23 million Americans right now who live in food deserts and 30 million kids who are in food insecure homes.
  — Fortune Editors, Fortune, 11 Aug. 2022
• And for families who are food insecure, the daily struggle to keep bellies full can become even more fraught.
  — Washington Post, 10 Apr. 2022
• My entire childhood from age zero to 18 was food insecure.
  — Bianca Betancourt, Harper's BAZAAR, 24 Nov. 2020
• Even in a city as affluent as Cambridge, one in eight families is food insecure.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 23 Mar. 2021
• And with this new way of serving the food insecure of Carroll County has come another glimmer of hope in a new cadre of younger volunteers who are serving the food.
  — Hermine Saunders, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 8 Aug. 2020
• According to the World Food Program, 17 million Yemenis are food insecure; that number is projected to reach 19 million by the end of the year.
  — Robinson Meyer, The Atlantic, 4 May 2022
• When the majority of people who are food insecure in this country are working-class poor.
  — Washington Post, 10 Nov. 2020
• Studies have shown that SNAP reduces the likelihood of being food insecure by 30%.
  — Margaret Lombe, The Conversation, 27 May 2021
• While its doors have been closed, the eatery’s remaining staff has helped prepare close to a million meals for frontline workers and food insecure families in the New York-area.
  — Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 3 May 2021
• People who are food insecure are at highest risk for chronic diseases, which can be heightened by racial inequities in health care.
  — Washington Post, 11 June 2021
• Some 10 million of them are acutely food insecure, according to WFP.
  — James Hookway, WSJ, 9 Oct. 2020

Last Updated: 28 May 2024