How to Use anti-hunger in a Sentence

anti-hunger

adjective
  • The program is regarded as the largest anti-hunger program in the country.
    — Nushrat Rahman, Freep.com, 28 Oct. 2025
  • And boosting, not slashing, anti-hunger programs.
    — Laura Washington, Chicago Tribune, 11 Feb. 2026
  • Gleaners from a local anti-hunger group harvested some of the crops to donate to nearby food banks and shelters.
    — Jessica Winter, New Yorker, 4 Oct. 2025
  • The anti-hunger program serves low-income, food-insecure households.
    — Bebe Hodges, Cincinnati Enquirer, 14 Nov. 2025
  • In Florida, about one in eight people use the federal anti-hunger program.
    — Romy Ellenbogen, Miami Herald, 3 Nov. 2025
  • Funding for the nation's largest anti-hunger program ran out a week ago, as the federal shutdown entered its second month.
    — Jennifer Ludden, NPR, 7 Nov. 2025
  • The anti-hunger program, which helps people afford groceries, had never before been forced to stop sending payments.
    — Ryan Murphy, IndyStar, 13 Nov. 2025
  • The state's anti-hunger program known as FoodShare is funded by a mix of federal and state funding.
    — Molly Beck, jsonline.com, 5 Dec. 2025
  • His devastating cuts to Medicaid and anti-hunger programs, silent again.
    — Chris Van Buskirk, Boston Herald, 15 Sep. 2025
  • Yet advocates warn the lapse has left lasting damage, eroding confidence in the nation’s largest anti-hunger program.
    — Hannah Parry, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 Nov. 2025
  • What is clear is that a lot of money has disappeared from people's food budgets, and anti-hunger advocates say that food banks alone will not be able to make up the difference.
    — Jennifer Ludden, NPR, 3 Nov. 2025
  • His devastating cuts to Medicaid and anti-hunger programs.
    — Chris Van Buskirk, Boston Herald, 15 Sep. 2025
  • In Iowa, anti-hunger advocates recently sought to highlight how some cold sandwiches and granola bars may not qualify.
    — Rachel Roubein, Washington Post, 20 Apr. 2026
  • This latest directive leaves in limbo the roughly one in eight Americans who depend on the nation’s larger anti-hunger program.
    — Danya Gainor, CNN Money, 10 Nov. 2025
  • But anti-hunger advocates say that description is misleading, and could threaten food assistance for millions of low-income families.
    — Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 29 June 2026
  • As a result, funding for the nation's anti-hunger program, known as FoodShare in Wisconsin, has been a casualty.
    — Molly Beck, jsonline.com, 10 Nov. 2025
  • Colorado paused the process of banning federal food assistance from paying for soft drinks following opposition from anti-hunger advocates and people who rely on the program.
    — Meg Wingerter, Denver Post, 30 Mar. 2026
  • More than 42 million people receive SNAP benefits, sometimes called food stamps, as part of the nation’s largest anti-hunger program.
    — Reuters, NBC news, 5 Aug. 2025
  • Supporters of anti-hunger programs are furious that these funds for farmers are being paid for by cutting SNAP benefits to families.
    — Christopher Neubert, The Conversation, 7 Jan. 2026
  • More than 40 million people rely on SNAP each month, and anti-hunger advocates warn that the funding lapse could trigger widespread food insecurity.
    — Hannah Parry, MSNBC Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2025
  • The legislative leaders have floated the idea of attaching the funding to a bill that would bar recipients of the anti-hunger program known as FoodShare from using benefits to purchase sugary foods like soda and candy.
    — Molly Beck, jsonline.com, 5 Dec. 2025
  • But county officials and anti-hunger advocates said the new requirements will force more people to food banks in the Bay Area, where food insecurity spiked during the pandemic and has never returned to pre-pandemic levels.
    — Grant Stringer, Mercury News, 26 May 2026
  • And nonprofit organizations must step up and work together in partnership with other anti-hunger organizations, older adult providers, and local and state governments to continue this invaluable research.
    — Beth Shapiro, Time, 27 Oct. 2025
  • Earlier this year, the administration sought to pause the program during the government shutdown, prompting concern from anti-hunger advocates and state agencies that depend on federal funding to distribute monthly food allowances.
    — Dan Gooding, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 Nov. 2025
  • The legislation restricts access to SNAP, the country's largest anti-hunger initiative, although some lawfully present immigrants may still apply after a five-year waiting period.
    — Aliss Higham, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 Nov. 2025
  • Tracking food insecurity allowed the USDA, Congress, researchers and anti-hunger groups to know how nutritional assistance programs were performing and what types of households continued to experience need.
    — Tracy Roof, The Conversation, 2 Oct. 2025
  • On Wednesday, Baltimore County Public Library held a Summer Meals Celebration at the White Marsh Branch to kick off their anti-hunger initiative.
    — Cbs Baltimore Staff, CBS News, 24 June 2026
  • Public charge fears are expected to decrease enrollment also in anti-hunger programs, such as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, known in California as CalFresh.
    — Kff Health News, Oc Register, 15 Apr. 2026
  • Today, his Brooklyn tech company makes a free app for people on the federal government's anti-hunger Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP.
    — Maria Aspan, NPR, 4 Nov. 2025
  • Those concerns reached critical mass when the Citizens’ Board of Inquiry into Hunger and Malnutrition, launched by a group of anti-hunger activists, issued a report in 1968, Hunger USA.
    — Tracy Roof, The Conversation, 2 Oct. 2025

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