How to Use undernourished in a Sentence

undernourished

adjective

• But Lippe said the necropsy showed that the dog had been undernourished in the days leading up to its death.
  — Libby Solomon, baltimoresun.com, 19 Mar. 2018
• The hope is that the rice could feed the 41% of the country that the United Nations believes is undernourished.
  — Ivan Watson, Jungeun Kim, Stella Ko and Jo Shelley, CNN, 17 May 2018
• The bear did not have rabies and did not appear to be undernourished.
  — Peter Passi / Forum News Service, Twin Cities, 29 July 2019
• One-third of the world’s food is thrown away, while hundreds of millions of people go undernourished.
  — Noelle Carter, latimes.com, 5 May 2017
• In some regions of Africa, the number of undernourished people has increased by almost 50% in the last decade.
  — Los Angeles Times, 4 Nov. 2021
• Another grim statistic can be added to the list: more than one in five Venezuelans are undernourished.
  — The Economist, 19 July 2019
• Hunger is now a regular aspect of lives, their families joining the ranks of the undernourished in Haiti, Jacques said.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 26 Oct. 2021
• Hunger is now a regular aspect of lives, their families joining the ranks of the undernourished in Haiti, Mr. Jacques said.
  — New York Times, 26 Oct. 2021
• A quarter of the world’s undernourished people live in India, where rural food prices have doubled this past year.
  — Zinara Rathnayake, The Christian Science Monitor, 9 Aug. 2022
• The male adult whale was undernourished after three years of bad feeding conditions, Mate said.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 24 Nov. 2019
• One-third of people in eastern Africa were undernourished.
  — Agnieszka De Sousa, Bloomberg.com, 15 Sep. 2017
• But anger and conflict and evil will flourish, when virtue’s neglected and hope undernourished.
  — Tim Sullivan, The Courier-Journal, 24 Dec. 2017
• Nowadays, according to the UN, just one out of nine people worldwide is undernourished, even though our numbers have more than doubled in the past 50 years.
  — National Geographic, 25 Mar. 2020
• To reach undernourished kids in areas like these, Golden Rice would have to be grown by commercial farmers and sold in markets.
  — Dominic Glover, The Conversation, 7 Feb. 2020
• But that would have been a better bet had at least as much effort been put into a screenplay whose ideas, both comic and macabre, remain undernourished.
  — Dennis Harvey, Variety, 1 Oct. 2021
• By the early 1940s, Jarvis had become undernourished and was losing her eyesight.
  — The Washington Post, The Denver Post, 15 May 2017
• According to the World Wildlife Fund, that's enough calories to feed every undernourished person.
  — Teddy Grant, ABC News, 19 Nov. 2022
• About 1 in 9 people are currently undernourished worldwide, and poor nutrition is to blame for nearly half of the deaths of children younger than 5.
  — Scientific American, 13 Aug. 2019
• What at one point in Allen’s long career may have felt clever and innovative simply comes off like a hoary device to pad an undernourished story.
  — Gary Goldstein, Los Angeles Times, 27 Jan. 2022
• Halsey’s Hopeless Fountain Kingdom exposes some treble weakness in the E5000s, which can sound a bit thin and undernourished up top.
  — Vlad Savov, The Verge, 11 June 2019
• Already about 1 billion people in the world are deemed food-insecure and 795 million are undernourished.
  — Umair Irfan, Vox, 24 May 2018
• As climate change leads to food shortages for various groups of people, and undernourished children fail to grow as large as their parents, then even the human species might start shrinking.
  — Elizabeth Preston, Discover Magazine, 18 Oct. 2011
• The Humane Society needs food for the undernourished cattle.
  — Mitch Mitchell, star-telegram, 10 Feb. 2018
• Without more focus on the needs of the world’s undernourished people, eliminating hunger will remain a distant goal.
  — Deepak Ray, The Conversation, 13 May 2022
• After decades of sustained decline, the number of undernourished people has been growing since 2015.
  — Linda Nordling, Scientific American, 25 Nov. 2020
• But the critique of Stoppard has been that his brainy comedies are emotionally undernourished.
  — Ashley Lee, Los Angeles Times, 11 June 2023
• Many Venezuelans are undernourished, medicine is scarce and at least three million Venezuelans have left the country during the past two decades, causing a regional migrant crisis.
  — José De Córdoba, WSJ, 21 Nov. 2018
• There may be ways to persuade wealthier nations to raise more food crops and divert that extra output to undernourished countries, but this would be a short-term solution.
  — Deepak Ray, The Conversation, 13 May 2022
• Venezuelans, many of whom are undernourished, anxiously wait for their monthly delivery, and a thriving black market has sprung up to sell CLAP products.
  — Scott Smith, Houston Chronicle, 7 May 2018
• The undernourished population is growing Meanwhile, the number of undernourished people in the world has increased.
  — Clarisa Diaz, Quartz, 6 June 2022

Last Updated: 14 Aug 2024