How to Use undernourished in a Sentence

undernourished

adjective
  • The bear did not have rabies and did not appear to be undernourished.
    — Peter Passi / Forum News Service, Twin Cities, 29 July 2019
  • One-third of the world’s food is thrown away, while hundreds of millions of people go undernourished.
    — Noelle Carter, latimes.com, 5 May 2017
  • But Lippe said the necropsy showed that the dog had been undernourished in the days leading up to its death.
    — Libby Solomon, baltimoresun.com, 19 Mar. 2018
  • But anger and conflict and evil will flourish, when virtue’s neglected and hope undernourished.
    — Tim Sullivan, The Courier-Journal, 24 Dec. 2017
  • Cosmo is largely wasted in a rote cranky-but-loyal part that adds little to the undernourished whole.
    — Dennis Harvey, Variety, 29 Apr. 2025
  • The male adult whale was undernourished after three years of bad feeding conditions, Mate said.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 24 Nov. 2019
  • Smith said the skin can undergo further harm, as many are often undernourished thanks to the decrease in appetite from the drugs.
    — Emily Burns, Footwear News, 7 May 2025
  • But that would have been a better bet had at least as much effort been put into a screenplay whose ideas, both comic and macabre, remain undernourished.
    — Dennis Harvey, Variety, 1 Oct. 2021
  • The emotional bond between parent and child is undernourished.
    — Letter Writers, Twin Cities, 6 June 2019
  • In some regions of Africa, the number of undernourished people has increased by almost 50% in the last decade.
    — Los Angeles Times, 4 Nov. 2021
  • What at one point in Allen’s long career may have felt clever and innovative simply comes off like a hoary device to pad an undernourished story.
    — Gary Goldstein, Los Angeles Times, 27 Jan. 2022
  • Without more focus on the needs of the world’s undernourished people, eliminating hunger will remain a distant goal.
    — Deepak Ray, The Conversation, 13 May 2022
  • But the critique of Stoppard has been that his brainy comedies are emotionally undernourished.
    — Ashley Lee, Los Angeles Times, 11 June 2023
  • The hope is that the rice could feed the 41% of the country that the United Nations believes is undernourished.
    — Ivan Watson, Jungeun Kim, Stella Ko and Jo Shelley, CNN, 17 May 2018
  • To reach undernourished kids in areas like these, Golden Rice would have to be grown by commercial farmers and sold in markets.
    — Dominic Glover, The Conversation, 7 Feb. 2020
  • Hunger is now a regular aspect of lives, their families joining the ranks of the undernourished in Haiti, Jacques said.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 26 Oct. 2021
  • The kid appeared undernourished and wearing a torn Miami Heat T-shirt.
    — David Dickstein, Oc Register, 11 Mar. 2026
  • The undernourished obviously suffer this problem, but in many cases, those who end up obese suffer from a lack of access to nutritious food, too.
    — Eleanor Cummins, Slate Magazine, 19 Sep. 2017
  • There may be ways to persuade wealthier nations to raise more food crops and divert that extra output to undernourished countries, but this would be a short-term solution.
    — Deepak Ray, The Conversation, 13 May 2022
  • As climate change leads to food shortages for various groups of people, and undernourished children fail to grow as large as their parents, then even the human species might start shrinking.
    — Elizabeth Preston, Discover Magazine, 18 Oct. 2011
  • And photos and videos after the storm showed undernourished Cubans, men, women and children dressed in rags and people barely managing in makeshift homes.
    — David Goodhue march 16, Miami Herald, 17 Mar. 2026
  • By the early 1940s, Jarvis had become undernourished and was losing her eyesight.
    — The Washington Post, The Denver Post, 15 May 2017
  • In letters and newspaper articles, visitors to the camp told of guards taking random shots at undernourished inmates and beating them with leather whips.
    — Gabriele Steinhauser, WSJ, 28 July 2017
  • According to the World Wildlife Fund, that's enough calories to feed every undernourished person.
    — Teddy Grant, ABC News, 19 Nov. 2022
  • Already about 1 billion people in the world are deemed food-insecure and 795 million are undernourished.
    — Umair Irfan, Vox, 24 May 2018
  • About 1 in 9 people are currently undernourished worldwide, and poor nutrition is to blame for nearly half of the deaths of children younger than 5.
    — Scientific American, 13 Aug. 2019
  • After decades of sustained decline, the number of undernourished people has been growing since 2015.
    — Linda Nordling, Scientific American, 25 Nov. 2020
  • Elk were forced to consume immense quantities of nutrient-poor fodder to try and meet their caloric needs, but most females were still undernourished and therefore unable to conceive.
    — Christie Wilcox, Discover Magazine, 17 Apr. 2014
  • Nursing mothers had to travel farther to find food, leaving many pups undernourished and leading to thousands of strandings along the California coast.
    — Brandi D. Addison, USA Today, 2 July 2026
  • Life in Arkham is no life at all, and Phoenix appears to have undergone even more severe weight loss in the name of his craft this time, all the better to suggest a broken, undernourished soul.
    — Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune, 3 Oct. 2024

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