How to Use malnourished in a Sentence

malnourished

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• 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
• The child was likely abused and malnourished, and the cause of death was ruled to be probable homicide.
  — Carol Robinson | [e-mail], 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
• 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 body of a malnourished 12-year-old boy has been discovered in a Wisconsin home.
  — Escher Walcott, Peoplemag, 17 Oct. 2023
• 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
• 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
• Staff are treating a massive spike in the number of malnourished babies since the flooding began.
  — Brent Swails, CNN, 6 Dec. 2021
• Scientists later determined that those were due to changes in the prey base that left the mothers malnourished and unable to feed their pups.
  — Deborah Sullivan Brennan, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Aug. 2020
• Police found two malnourished and dehydrated dogs inside the home at the time.
  — Lauren Castle, The Arizona Republic, 17 Nov. 2020
• The bodily rhythms of her malnourished childhood are still in play, and when the food arrives, Jordan struggles to feed herself enough.
  — ELLE, 6 Feb. 2023
• The child had blue eyes and brown hair that had been cut close to his scalp and was so malnourished that authorities could not determine his exact age.
  — Praveena Somasundaram, Washington Post, 9 Dec. 2022
• They were sent instead to the treatment center for the extremely malnourished where rooms are full, extra beds have been put out and yet some people must sleep on the floor.
  — Omar Faruk and Cara Anna, Anchorage Daily News, 8 June 2022
• When the Red Army returned to Odesa in April, 1944, some of the rebel forces were still underground: pale, malnourished, but attempting to hold their city from below.
  — Will Hunt, The New Yorker, 9 Apr. 2022
• Phoenix first arrived at the rescue as a stray in November 2020, malnourished, covered in fleas, and missing fur.
  — Kelli Bender, PEOPLE.com, 4 Apr. 2022
• Women lost babies because they were too malnourished to nurse them.
  — Mondiant Dogon, Time, 8 Oct. 2021
• At 14, Antuna was shy, polite and slightly malnourished, which left him small for his age.
  — Los Angeles Times, 21 Nov. 2022
• Children are malnourished, and at least nine have died because of acute diarrhea in central Rakhine State.
  — New York Times, 29 Dec. 2021
• The 15-year-old twins were severely malnourished and told police that abuse had been occurring for months, the affidavit said.
  — Chron, 21 Oct. 2022
• Brandy needed a little help: She was malnourished and weighed only 6 pounds (2.7 kilograms).
  — Robert Jablon, Star Tribune, 26 Feb. 2021
• Franke’s malnourished 10-year-old daughter was also found in Hildebrandt’s home.
  — Daysia Tolentino, NBC News, 25 Sep. 2023
• There’s Nola the white tiger who was found malnourished in Louisiana.
  — Abby Hamblin, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 June 2021
• The animals were malnourished, filthy and unkept, the sheriff's office said.
  — Taylor Pettaway, San Antonio Express-News, 2 Feb. 2022
• The total number of acutely malnourished children is expected to have risen even higher in the days and weeks since the screenings occurred.
  — Sarah Ferguson, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 28 May 2024