How to Use undernourished in a Sentence
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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
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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
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The bear did not have rabies and did not appear to be undernourished.
—Peter Passi / Forum News Service, Twin Cities, 29 July 2019
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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
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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
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Another grim statistic can be added to the list: more than one in five Venezuelans are undernourished.
—The Economist, 19 July 2019
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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
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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
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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
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The male adult whale was undernourished after three years of bad feeding conditions, Mate said.
—BostonGlobe.com, 24 Nov. 2019
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One-third of people in eastern Africa were undernourished.
—Agnieszka De Sousa, Bloomberg.com, 15 Sep. 2017
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But anger and conflict and evil will flourish, when virtue’s neglected and hope undernourished.
—Tim Sullivan, The Courier-Journal, 24 Dec. 2017
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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
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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
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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
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By the early 1940s, Jarvis had become undernourished and was losing her eyesight.
—The Washington Post, The Denver Post, 15 May 2017
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According to the World Wildlife Fund, that's enough calories to feed every undernourished person.
—Teddy Grant, ABC News, 19 Nov. 2022
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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
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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
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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
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Already about 1 billion people in the world are deemed food-insecure and 795 million are undernourished.
—Umair Irfan, Vox, 24 May 2018
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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
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The Humane Society needs food for the undernourished cattle.
—Mitch Mitchell, star-telegram, 10 Feb. 2018
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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
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After decades of sustained decline, the number of undernourished people has been growing since 2015.
—Linda Nordling, Scientific American, 25 Nov. 2020
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But the critique of Stoppard has been that his brainy comedies are emotionally undernourished.
—Ashley Lee, Los Angeles Times, 11 June 2023
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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
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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
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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
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The undernourished population is growing Meanwhile, the number of undernourished people in the world has increased.
—Clarisa Diaz, Quartz, 6 June 2022
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