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How to use emaciated in a sentence

15 example sentences · adjective

Emaciated means thin or haggard, especially from hunger or disease. Example: “The emaciated prisoners in the death camps were weak and sickly.”

Examples of emaciated by meaning

adjectiveThin or haggard, especially from hunger or disease.

  • The emaciated prisoners in the death camps were weak and sickly.
  • She arrived at a resort in December 2024, extremely emaciated — staff described her as “so weak she couldn’t walk on her own,” with sunken eyes, protruding bones, yellow fingernails and decaying teeth.2025 November 30, “27-year-old woman who only ate fruits has passed away”, in newgenrap

More sentences with emaciated

  • Also near eye level, his twig and berries taunt my emaciated masculinity.2021, Kendall Grey, Fooled. From the entry twig and berries
  • His whole constitution was that of an emaciated, suffering man, malarial and gaunt.2019, Chigozie Obioma, An Orchestra of Minorities, Abacus (2019), page 409. From the entry malarial
  • Angus listened, too, with pleased amusedness on his pale, emaciated face, pursing his shrunken jaw.1922, D. H. Lawrence, Aaron's Rod, page 204. From the entry amusedness
  • And yet I remember that it was that absurd, emaciated, superannuated cab-horse which held my gaze.1913, Arthur Conan Doyle, “(please specify the page)”, in The Poison Belt […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC. From the entry superannuated
  • I expected Burt to be wimpish or emaciated without his detective dress suit, but he was quite the opposite.2023, Judy Spoon Ertel, Any Which Aweigh You Die. From the entry bikini briefs
  • It left a waffley emaciated look across my entire top.2000, Nicolyn Rajala, Some Like It Hot: The Sauna, Its Lore and Stories, St. Cloud, Minn.: North Star Press of St. Cloud, Inc., published…. From the entry waffley
  • By old age she was emaciated, the bones jutting out of her face and her figure frail as a willow branch.1983 December 3, J. R., “Isak Dinesen, The Life of a Storyteller (review)”, in Gay Community News, volume 11, number 20, page 10. From the entry willow
  • Emaciated little creatures, with skin harsh and rough, rapid pulse, nerves ever on the strain—have yet a look of lively intelligence.1907, Margaret McMillan, Labour and Childhood, page 10. From the entry yet
  • His body was emaciated, an effect he usually amplified with a rastacap mounted on his dreadlocks, which made his head look like a giant wasp's bottom.2020, Burnaby Hawkes, The Haze, Athena Book Tavern, →ISBN, page 107. From the entry rastacap
  • His emaciated bum-fluffed face is covered in blackheads and his hair looks as if someone saved him from drowning in a barrel by pulling him up by his locks.2014, Fredrik Backman, A Man Called Ove, →ISBN. From the entry bum-fluffed
  • At Boy Bar, the bouncers, two tall, emaciated young men with shellacked hair under their bowler hats, were standing just inside the door to escape the cold.1986, David Leavitt, The Lost Language of Cranes, paperback edition, Penguin, page 41. From the entry shellacked
  • The morbid anatomy of over a hundred birds dead of intestinal coccidiosis and autopsied by us can be summarized as follows: The cadavera are very much emaciated and anemic.1913, American Veterinary Review, page 498. From the entry cadavera
  • But juxtaposed to a caveat about the life-threatening nature of anorexia is often an avowal of the pro-ana's goal: to help anorexics in their quest for the "ideal" (emaciated) body.2009, Avis Rumney, Dying to Please: Anorexia, Treatment and Recovery, 2nd edition, Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, →ISBN, →OL, pages…. From the entry pro-ana

Meaning of emaciated

  1. adjective Thin or haggard, especially from hunger or disease.

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Questions about emaciated in a sentence

How do you use emaciated in a sentence?
Emaciated is used as an adjective. For example: “The emaciated prisoners in the death camps were weak and sickly.”
What is a short sentence with emaciated?
“It left a waffley emaciated look across my entire top.”
What does emaciated mean?
Emaciated means thin or haggard, especially from hunger or disease.

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