How to Use anemic in a Sentence

anemic

adjective

• The band played an anemic rendition of a classic love song.
• The doctor told me I was slightly anemic.
• Investors are worried about the stock's anemic performance.
• Officials worried about anemic attendance at the shows.
• Sales rose an anemic 0.5 percent last quarter.
• Danzig’s take contains a vaguely anemic guitar solo toward the end; ignore that part.
  — Amanda Petrusich, The New Yorker, 12 May 2020
• Despite the anemic numbers, Whitman insists there's a path forward.
  — Jordan Valinsky, CNN, 9 July 2020
• Jet fuel demand, meanwhile, remains anemic, down 67% from the same four-week period a year earlier.
  — Josh Siegel, Washington Examiner, 20 May 2020
• Republicans are on defense nationwide, in large part due to Trump’s anemic approval ratings.
  — Todd J. Gillman, Dallas News, 7 July 2020
• The alternatives are anemic: Walmart and eBay are tiny compared to Amazon in terms of traffic.
  — Nicolás Rivero, Quartz, 28 July 2020
• One test under development at the company detects the level of iron in the blood, which can help identify and treat anemic individuals.
  — Amanda Morris, azcentral, 11 June 2020
• Two of them have already been impacted by coronavirus: Onward, the Pixar film released earlier this month, has had anemic ticket sales due to all the theater closures around the world.
  — Adam Epstein, Quartz, 16 Mar. 2020
• The defense hasn't looked bad, but the offense is sort of anemic.
  — Brett Dawson, The Courier-Journal, 28 Dec. 2021
• The kelp was anemic, with pale, stunted leaves or no growth at all.
  — New York Times, 10 June 2022
• The flesh should have a brilliant hue and shouldn’t be anemic or pale looking.
  — Robin Miller, The Arizona Republic, 14 Feb. 2024
• The Democrats lost the House in the 2010 midterm election amid an anemic recovery.
  — Larry Edelman, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Feb. 2021
• Sunday was the best the Cowboys’ anemic offense has looked in 2022.
  — Dallas News, 30 Oct. 2022
• Leaf blades are yellowed, and patches of the lawn look anemic.
  — Neil Sperry, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 19 Apr. 2024
• The anemic offense went from 93rd in the Kenpom metric to 44th now.
  — Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Mar. 2021
• Biogen slashed the price of Aduhelm roughly in half last month amid anemic sales.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Jan. 2022
• The Lions, 0-8 and the only winless team in the NFL, have one of the league's most anemic offenses.
  — Dave Birkett, Detroit Free Press, 12 Nov. 2021
• And anyway, given the anemic state of mainstream modern rock in 2024, the band might as well be the Rolling Stones at this point.
  — Brian McCollum, Detroit Free Press, 1 Aug. 2024
• The Colts have been anemic on offense and porous on defense.
  — Scott Horner, The Indianapolis Star, 29 Nov. 2022
• The work stoppage was a new blow to Haiti’s anemic economy.
  — Time, 20 Oct. 2021
• The team needed to revive an anemic offense that had fallen to the lower-third of MLB.
  — Lindsey Adler, WSJ, 30 Oct. 2022
• Job growth in April and May, while not anemic, fell well below the hopes that more than one million jobs could be added per month in the spring.
  — Washington Post, 2 July 2021
• The Dodgers offense was so anemic in the 1960s that many times Koufax could not afford to give up more than one or two runs in a game to get the win.
  — Los Angeles Times, 6 May 2022
• However, the anemic offense casts a long shadow over the whole team.
  — Kirkland Crawford, Detroit Free Press, 24 Apr. 2023
• Now, however, anemic funding has put the center’s mission at risk.
  — Caitlin Rivers, Foreign Affairs, 2 July 2024
• The week kicks off with figures on Sunday expected to show that China’s consumer inflation continued to limp along at an anemic 0.6% in September, while declines in factory-gate prices deepened.
  — Jason Ma, Fortune, 12 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 16 Dec 2024