How to Use malnutrition in a Sentence

malnutrition

noun

• As a result, hunger and malnutrition are on the rise again in the developing world.
  — Christopher B. Barrett, Foreign Affairs, 25 Sep. 2023
• Still, some of their hair is tinted with the orange that is a telltale sign of malnutrition.
  — Washington Post, 14 Nov. 2021
• About one-third of the children there show signs of severe malnutrition.
  — Tom Vanden Brook, USA TODAY, 26 Apr. 2024
• His family was poor enough that Serge’s younger brother died of malnutrition at the age of nine.
  — Ben Lerner, The New York Review of Books, 29 Dec. 2022
• Acute malnutrition has taken root in all but one of its 15 states and regions.
  — Washington Post, 4 Feb. 2022
• Two of those died of malnutrition during the first days of Ramadan, according to the ministry.
  — Sana Noor Haq, CNN, 13 Mar. 2024
• There had been a blight on the farms in recent years, and from the resulting malnutrition, the mothers could not produce milk to feed their babes.
  — Ottessa Moshfegh, Harper’s Magazine , 25 May 2022
• Over the years, droughts have led to crop failure, livestock deaths and millions of cases of malnutrition.
  — Nardos Haile, ajc, 16 Sep. 2022
• The study also found that malnutrition can also cause heart damage: the very thing Betz was trying to avoid.
  — Audrey Richardson and Aurora Sousanis, Detroit Free Press, 17 Mar. 2024
• Ahmed, 3, his feet swollen by malnutrition, died first.
  — Washington Post, 30 June 2022
• Sadly, Agnes died at five months old, due to malnutrition.
  — Madeleine Kearns, National Review, 14 Jan. 2024
• Over time, skipping meals leads to malnutrition, and cutting bath time short leads to poor hygiene.
  — Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 5 May 2023
• Feeling cold may be caused by malnutrition and low body fat.
  — Amanda Gardner, Health, 25 Apr. 2023
• The ensuing years have seen high rates of poverty and malnutrition.
  — Tara John, CNN, 21 Aug. 2023
• This may seem unproductive, to just give people the means to live but look at the cost of homelessness, poverty, and the malnutrition of our kids.
  — Jarl Jensen, Forbes, 6 July 2022
• This basic guideline serves to prevent the risks of malnutrition.
  — Dallas News, 22 Dec. 2022
• In recent weeks, at least eight inmates in southern Haiti, not connected to the Moïse case, have died from heat and malnutrition.
  — DÁnica Coto, BostonGlobe.com, 7 July 2022
• In a malnutrition ward of a hospital in southern Afghanistan, Shukria, 40, sat with her 1-year-old grandson, Mahtab, his mouth craned open but body too weak to let out a cry.
  — New York Times, 27 Nov. 2021
• Before the conflict, her team had been racing to combat a wave of malaria and malnutrition in Darfur ahead of the June rainy season.
  — Cora Engelbrecht, New York Times, 7 June 2023
• Here, children waiting for meals of beans and arepas bear the telltale signs of malnutrition: skinny limbs, hair turned rust yellow.
  — Julie Turkewitz Federico Rios, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2023
• Dozens of the passengers died of malnutrition and disease.
  — Deneen L. Brown, Washington Post, 26 Sep. 2022
• Our models include the effects of acute malnutrition on death rates.
  — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 24 Feb. 2024
• Her 11-month-old son is slowly slipping away due to malnutrition.
  — Fox News, 20 Aug. 2022
• But Gaza is unusual for the speed with which people have been pushed into malnutrition.
  — Stephanie Nolen, New York Times, 11 Jan. 2024
• That was almost 20 years ago, and now his malnutrition effort is stronger than ever.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 1 Feb. 2022
• Many carried tell-tale signs of malnutrition, like stunted growth and light colored hair.
  — Willem Marx, NPR, 8 Sep. 2024
• Yet, climate change is now undermining what progress has been made across the continent in the last few decades–with hunger, malnutrition, and poverty all on the rise.
  — Joyce Banda, Fortune, 22 June 2023
• Jim Downs: What she's really faced with are high rates of malnutrition, starvation, the fact that people don't have shoes.
  — Dominique Janee, Scientific American, 2 Nov. 2023
• The study Gordon and Ahmed’s team published this week is the first to focus on children with severe malnutrition, which is more challenging to treat.
  — Byelizabeth Pennisi, science.org, 2 Oct. 2024
• And unfortunately, malnutrition is trending in the wrong direction inside the camps.
  — Maryanne Murray Buechner, Forbes, 11 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 10 Nov 2024