How to Use food insecure in a Sentence

food insecure

adjective
  • Many of those whom the church feeds are homeless or food insecure.
    Susan Selasky, Detroit Free Press, 9 Feb. 2024
  • That amounts to one in every eight people in the state being food insecure — and that was in 2019.
    Sarah Bowman, The Indianapolis Star, 23 Dec. 2021
  • Of the counties the campaign serves, one in five children are food insecure.
    Nikki Delamotte, cleveland.com, 30 Apr. 2018
  • Asia and Africa are home to the majority of people in the world who are food insecure.
    Washington Post, 23 June 2021
  • Three out of 10 people with kids are food insecure right now.
    The Atlantic, 26 Oct. 2020
  • To date the event has raised about $10 million to fight hunger in Greater Houston with more than 30 million meals for the food insecure.
    Greg Morago, Houston Chronicle, 7 June 2018
  • In San Diego, more than a half-million adults — 1 in 4 — are food insecure, as are 1 in 3 children.
    Steven P. Dinkin, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Dec. 2022
  • The odds of being food insecure also dropped by one-third.
    Sara Moniuszko, CBS News, 29 Aug. 2023
  • In the United States about 12 percent of people are what’s called food insecure.
    Aubrey Nagle, Philly.com, 21 May 2018
  • The show will also take an in-depth look at hunger in Louisville and how area farmers are partnering with Dare to Care to feed the food insecure.
    Kirby Adams, The Courier-Journal, 9 Jan. 2020
  • Many of the worst impacts of food prices are being felt in countries that are already food insecure.
    Adam Taylor, Washington Post, 20 May 2022
  • For many of the Northside staffers, helping feed the food insecure is a way to ensure better learning in the classroom.
    Tom Orsborn, ExpressNews.com, 10 July 2020
  • Adults whose grocery costs increased a lot were about twice as likely as other adults to be food insecure, the study found.
    Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 21 Mar. 2023
  • Since the organization was born in March, Feed Louisville has served roughly 7,000 meals per month to the homeless and the food insecure.
    Andre Toran, The Courier-Journal, 21 Jan. 2021
  • While the number of meals being distributed to food insecure Hoosiers doubled, so did the need.
    Holly V. Hays, The Indianapolis Star, 9 Dec. 2021
  • What's worse, 33% of households with single moms are food insecure.
    Journal Sentinel, 11 Jan. 2024
  • One in eight Minnesotans are food insecure—up from 1 in 11 before the pandemic—and lines of cars clog traffic near food pantries.
    Elizabeth Merrill, History & Culture, 21 Dec. 2020
  • Afar and Amhara are food insecure to some degree and in need of food aid, according to the UN's latest analysis.
    Maryanne Murray Buechner, Forbes, 15 June 2021
  • Throughout North Texas, one in four children is food insecure.
    Dallas News, 1 July 2021
  • School meals are a consistent food source for students who are food insecure.
    Eryka Forquer, The Arizona Republic, 16 Sep. 2022
  • Nearly as many of those who are food insecure don't have secure housing.
    Mará Rose Williams, kansascity, 5 Apr. 2018
  • In the beginning, for example, we were focused on how to feed folks in the industry who were food insecure.
    Jenny Feldt, Bon Appétit, 19 May 2021
  • Proceeds benefit the North Texas Food Bank and help thousands of people who are food insecure.
    Dallas News, 30 Oct. 2020
  • Hilary Seligman: The most recent data suggests that about 1 in 10 households in the U.S. are food insecure.
    Hilary Seligman, The Conversation, 15 June 2023
  • The report also found that one in four low-income households remained food insecure in 2021.
    Los Angeles Times, 1 Aug. 2022
  • So, so the thing that’s still completely is that there are 23 million Americans right now who live in food deserts and 30 million kids who are in food insecure homes.
    Fortune Editors, Fortune, 11 Aug. 2022
  • And for families who are food insecure, the daily struggle to keep bellies full can become even more fraught.
    Washington Post, 10 Apr. 2022
  • My entire childhood from age zero to 18 was food insecure.
    Bianca Betancourt, Harper's BAZAAR, 24 Nov. 2020
  • Texas is the second-most food insecure state in the country, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
    Lillie Davidson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 6 June 2024
  • Food spoilage for people who are food insecure, transportation insecure so basically don't have extra money to run to the store, don't have a car to drive into a neighborhood that has power.
    Jeanine Santucci, USA TODAY, 13 July 2024

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