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
• And according to a new study, people are still feeling the effects of those fires — with many food insecure and at risk for serious health issues.
  — Li Cohen, CBS News, 16 May 2024

Last Updated: 1 Nov 2024