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.
• 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
• Sunday was the best the Cowboys’ anemic offense has looked in 2022.
  — Dallas News, 30 Oct. 2022
• The Colts have been anemic on offense and porous on defense.
  — Scott Horner, The Indianapolis Star, 29 Nov. 2022
• The team needed to revive an anemic offense that had fallen to the lower-third of MLB.
  — Lindsey Adler, WSJ, 30 Oct. 2022
• 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
• And through that test, Reynolds learned the little girl was severely anemic – to the point of having a heart murmur.
  — The Enquirer, 30 Jan. 2024
• The opposite of being anemic: too many red blood cells, making the blood thicker and more prone to clot.
  — Men's Health, 6 Feb. 2023
• The Tigers were held to two hits on Wednesday night, which is poor even by the anemic standards their offense has set this season.
  — Ryan Ford, Detroit Free Press, 28 Apr. 2022
• By Trump’s robust standards, his fund-raising since the midterms has been anemic.
  — Steve Coll, The New Yorker, 5 Mar. 2023
• The dam eventually broke, as it’s bound to do when your offense is so anemic.
  — Zach Osterman, The Indianapolis Star, 3 Sep. 2023
• Biden’s speeches over the past two years has done little to improve his anemic polling on the economy.
  — Josh Boak, Fortune, 11 Dec. 2023
• Prior to the Panthers' final drive, their offense was anemic, gaining just 54 yards in the first half.
  — Tony Garcia, Detroit Free Press, 23 Apr. 2022
• He was covered in fleas, had ear infections and was anemic.
  — Landon Mion, Fox News, 3 Aug. 2022
• Nneka Ogwumike said the first step to fixing the anemic offense is staying healthy.
  — Los Angeles Times, 4 May 2022
• But unlike last year, when Detroit had one of the most anemic offenses in the league, this time around the Lions continued to look like one of the best.
  — Tony Garcia, Detroit Free Press, 2 Oct. 2022
• Another large hike from the Fed and anemic GDP growth are expected.
  — Paul R. La Monica, CNN, 25 July 2022
• No team with such an anemic rotation has ever won the World Series.
  — Dylan Hernández, Los Angeles Times, 12 Sep. 2023
• Instead, injuries and an anemic offense sank a team that once won 11 straight AFC East titles.
  — Kyle Hightower, USA TODAY, 5 Jan. 2024
• The focus is on Pittsburgh’s anemic offense versus the Rams’ stingy defense.
  — Sam Farmer, Los Angeles Times, 19 Oct. 2023
• He was found injured in a Los Feliz backyard and appeared anemic.
  — Nathan Solis, Los Angeles Times, 14 June 2023
• But on the day of the dinner, an arrangement of lilies and carnations arrived, with one anemic lilac tucked in: no fragrance, droopy petals.
  — Kevin Fisher-Paulson, San Francisco Chronicle, 10 May 2022
• The study, published earlier this month in the journal Blood, focused on frequent blood donors who were low in iron but not anemic.
  — Brittany Trang, STAT, 21 Sep. 2022
• People become anemic when their blood lacks enough healthy red blood cells to carry oxygen throughout the body.
  — Nicholas Kassebaum, The Conversation, 8 Sep. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024