How to Use emaciated in a Sentence

emaciated

adjective

• To prepare for the scene in which Neo wakes up in a pod, Keanu Reeves lost fifteen pounds and shaved his whole body to give Neo an emaciated look.
  — Andy Meek, BGR, 16 Dec. 2021
• As Taymia, who has a double heart defect, grew weak and emaciated, lawyers and human rights groups took up her cause.
  — Ben Hubbard, BostonGlobe.com, 31 May 2020
• The body of a hiker missing since March 16 was found Thursday in a city park and his dog was still there at his side, alive but emaciated, reports say.
  — Cliff Pinckard, cleveland, 3 Apr. 2022
• Linda Tokarz became the owner of a very large but emaciated black cat that arrived many years ago on the back deck of her Greenbelt, Md., home.
  — John Kelly, Washington Post, 8 Dec. 2020
• One call brought her to a man, paralyzed and emaciated, who couldn’t feed himself.
  — Kamila Hrabchuk, Washington Post, 1 Jan. 2024
• But Claudia, ever the hunter, stalks the night in search of other vampires and finds an emaciated, corpse-like figure feasting on soldiers in the woods.
  — Hunter Ingram, Variety, 13 May 2024
• Friends were concerned that despite her therapy Karen still looked emaciated and was yet to put on weight.
  — Seth Abramovitch, The Hollywood Reporter, 31 Oct. 2023
• Then there was the Nordhausen concentration camp, some 400 miles and a world away, where trenches were piled high with the emaciated bodies of the Nazis’ victims.
  — Brandy Schillace, WSJ, 17 Feb. 2023
• An emaciated pit bull was found lying near a creek in a wooded area across from the Cuyahoga County Airport Nov. 5.
  — cleveland, 9 Nov. 2022
• Police found Ruby Franke’s son, 12, emaciated, wounded and bound with duct tape Aug. 30.
  — Daysia Tolentino, NBC News, 30 Nov. 2023
• In photos shared by the outlets, Kumar appeared heavily emaciated and covered in dirt at the time of her rescue.
  — Samira Asma-Sadeque, Peoplemag, 31 July 2024
• According to police reports, the child had remnants of duct tape on his hands and ankles and appeared emaciated and wounded.
  — Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 27 Dec. 2023
• The authors suggested the emaciated whale may have approached the photographers’ friend’s boat to seek cover from the other whale.
  — Matt Lavietes, NBC News, 29 Feb. 2024
• His blue jogging bottoms hang off his emaciated legs, as his tiny ribcage protrudes from his billowy orange T-shirt.
  — Abdel Qadder Sabbah, CNN, 25 June 2024
• That said, offensive numbers two weeks into the season are so emaciated as to be laughable.
  — Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, 27 Apr. 2022
• Because he wasn’t dehydrated or emaciated, Ullman estimates that the dog hadn’t been in the wilderness for more than a couple of days.
  — Jonathan Edwards, Washington Post, 15 Nov. 2023
• Three weeks later, Papini reappeared on the side of a highway in Yolo County, bruised and emaciated, with her long blond hair sheared short and right shoulder branded.
  — Hannah Wiley, Los Angeles Times, 28 Mar. 2024
• Four minors were taken into the care of the Department of Child and Family Services following a search of the home where the emaciated juveniles were found.
  — Daysia Tolentino, NBC News, 31 Aug. 2023
• Only in the last stages do CWD's victims weaken, stagger, become emaciated and appear dazed.
  — Lisa Hammersly, Arkansas Online, 3 Jan. 2022
• An emaciated baby gray fox found near his dead mother in an electrical sub-station was covered in a sticky substance.
  — Karina Bland, azcentral, 5 June 2020
• The sounds of bones crunching and hot blood hissing onto white snow; the claustrophobia of being buried in an avalanche in real time; a pallid, emaciated hand reaching into a pile of bones to pick the last meat off a friend’s ribs.
  — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 5 Jan. 2024
• Journey, who was found emaciated, spent the past week in the hospital healing, but was finally able to enter foster care Tuesday.
  — Keisha Rowe, The Courier-Journal, 14 Feb. 2024
• Reintroducing food to an emaciated body can be dangerous and even lethal if done too quickly.
  — Katie Engelhart, New York Times, 3 Jan. 2024
• And what seemed like a cute chance encounter turned into a real rescue when the team noticed something was wrong with the emaciated hitchhiker, KCBS reported.
  — Brooke Baitinger, Sacramento Bee, 24 May 2024
• And that can pose a conflict between the strength and muscle needed to perform certain stunts and Hollywood’s emaciated ideal of beauty.
  — NBC News, 23 Sep. 2020
• Mark Kelly Recent images showing the emaciated figure of Mikheil Saakashvili have shocked the internet.
  — Melik Kaylan, WSJ, 7 July 2023
• The grim details in its pages — shorn hair, emaciated bodies — that began to raise suspicions about its terrible origins.
  — Emily Alpert Reyes, Los Angeles Times, 20 May 2024
• She was emaciated, weighing just 50 lbs., and had several broken bones.
  — Liam Quinn, Peoplemag, 6 July 2024
• The child was extremely dehydrated and emaciated, weighing 13 pounds, 7 pounds less than in her last doctor's visit less than two months before, Mooney said.
  — Phil Helsel, NBC News, 18 Mar. 2024
• The best sequences of the film lean into opulent one-takes that wouldn’t feel out of place in the latest Avengers but are delivered with a level of care actually servicing the work of emaciated VFX artists bound to their desk chairs.
  — Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 4 Apr. 2023

Last Updated: 20 Nov 2024