How to Use anorexic in a Sentence

anorexic

adjective
  • Other folks smight only have enough space for a pair of anorexic goats.
    — Clarence Schmidt, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Aug. 2025
  • No natives who could become anorexic or be killed in a car accident.
    — Tama Janowitz, Town & Country, 28 June 2017
  • Her oldest daughter, Sadie, 26, speaks up when her mom’s anorexic behaviors flare.
    — Deanna Weniger, Twin Cities, 28 Dec. 2019
  • His treatment for anorexic girls involved sitting the whole family down for lunch and urging the parents to use all means to get their daughters to eat.
    — Faye Fiore, Washington Post, 4 Nov. 2017
  • An anorexic sister metamorphoses into an eel, a twin reincarnates as a fox, a dead young man is a revenant dripping newly lethal language.
    — Hermione Hoby, New York Times, 26 May 2017
  • Yet the building itself is almost anorexic in its proportions, with 13 floors soaring over a lot barely 30 feet wide.
    — Condé Nast Traveler, 20 Oct. 2017
  • But nothing David makes for dinner or tries to say seems enough to compel her to eat, let alone ameliorate her depressive state and anorexic behavior.
    — Leslie Felperin, HollywoodReporter, 25 Sep. 2025
  • His maternal grandmother was anorexic.
    — Helen Lewis, The Atlantic, 24 Feb. 2026
  • To the Bone introduces viewers to Kendra, a young black woman who's bulimic and plus-sized, and Luke, an anorexic ballet dancer.
    — Hannah Orenstein, Seventeen, 14 July 2017
  • Staff kept incomplete records on another, anorexic resident at risk for dehydration, the citation said.
    — Cara Rosner, courant.com, 9 June 2017
  • His team has previously found cancer patients with an anorexic and muscle-wasting syndrome called cachexia also have high blood levels of GDF15.
    — Roni Dengler, Science | AAAS, 21 Mar. 2018
  • When Klara ends up in the local hospital’s anorexic ward, David and Laura must resort to even more desperate measures, which paradoxically help thaw out their own emotional cold war.
    — Leslie Felperin, HollywoodReporter, 25 Sep. 2025
  • Despite the eating-disorder stereotypes often depicted in movies and on TV — the overweight binge eater and frail anorexic — sufferers come in all shapes, colors, and sizes, and sometimes, with no discernible signs of internal struggle.
    — Elizabeth Narins, Cosmopolitan, 21 July 2017
  • However, the major risks are encountered when the FMD is combined with drugs and especially insulin or similar drugs or is used by elderly, frail, pregnant or anorexic individuals.
    — Laura Landro, WSJ, 11 Apr. 2017
  • In 2022, Austrian director Marie Kreutzer released Corsage, the excellent feminist re-reading of the life of 19th century Empress Elizabeth, known as Sissi, with Vicki Krieps as the eccentric, anorexic empress and Florian Teichtmeister as her philandering husband, Franz Joseph I.
    — Stephanie Bunbury, Deadline, 15 May 2026

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