How to Use malnourished in a Sentence

malnourished

adjective

• Klim said that the city not long ago received a call about a malnourished and unhealthy dog.
  — Barbara Boyer, Philly.com, 10 Jan. 2018
• Mathews told police that Sherin was malnourished and had to be on a special diet to gain weight.
  — The Washington Post, NOLA.com, 22 Oct. 2017
• The torture and false imprisonment charges do not include the 2-year-old, who was not malnourished.
  — Amy Taxin, Time, 19 Jan. 2018
• And the most crucial evidence was medical — evidence of a litany of injuries to the severely malnourished child who weighed just 18 pounds.
  — David Ovalle, miamiherald, 13 Dec. 2017
• In California: Police freed children who were malnourished and shackled to beds in Perris.
  — latimes.com, 16 Jan. 2018
• Inside, according to authorities, the children of David and Louise Turpin were kept captive, malnourished and abused, with some of them in chains.
  — Adam Carlson, PEOPLE.com, 18 Jan. 2018
• They had been tortured, abused and neglected for years in ways so extreme that the siblings are severely malnourished and some show signs of cognitive impairment and nerve damage, prosecutors said.
  — Author: Paloma Esquivel, Anchorage Daily News, 25 Jan. 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 | [e-mail], al, 28 June 2021
• All of the children — except the youngest, who is just 2 years old — were malnourished, police say.
  — Josh Magness, miamiherald, 21 Feb. 2018
• The autopsy found the girl was malnourished and had been abused over a long period of time.
  — Crimesider Staff, CBS News, 20 Feb. 2018
• 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
• Eight appeared to be starving and ten were malnourished.
  — Dan Morse, Washington Post, 18 Apr. 2018
• 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
• But the hungry, malnourished children only get the food if Messi & Neymar have a good World Cup?!?!?
  — Ryan Gaydos, Fox News, 6 June 2018
• 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
• After being taken in by the shelter, her sick and malnourished kittens passed away.
  — Ronnie Li, USA TODAY, 5 July 2024
• The malnourished woman, wearing a collar locked around her neck, ran to a neighbor’s house and said she had been restrained in a man’s basement in Excelsior Springs.
  — Robert A. Cronkleton, Kansas City Star, 12 July 2024

Last Updated: 28 Oct 2024