How to Use eating disorder in a Sentence

eating disorder

noun
  • Part of the problem was that the eating disorder had turned on her.
    — Katie Engelhart, New York Times, 3 Jan. 2024
  • If that is the war within me, the eating disorder is the weapon.
    — Julie Gallagher, CNN, 5 Sep. 2020
  • Troian has been very vocal about her eating disorder in the past.
    — Gianluca Russo, Glamour, 2 June 2019
  • Heather was 14 years old when an eating disorder took over her life.
    — Michelle Konstantinovsky, Wired, 29 Sep. 2020
  • And some picky eaters aren't just picky, but grappling with an eating disorder.
    — David Oliver, USA TODAY, 8 July 2021
  • Both short- and long-term stress can lead to substance use and eating disorders.
    — Lipi Roy, Md, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2023
  • It’s been going on for years, but there’s no eating disorder.
    — David Chiu, Peoplemag, 27 Oct. 2023
  • Have eating disorders and drug problems, when that’s not the case.
    — Hanna Flanagan, PEOPLE.com, 18 Oct. 2019
  • How can the bones of a young person be so damaged by an eating disorder?
    — Stephanie Emma Pfeffer, PEOPLE.com, 8 July 2022
  • Here’s what to know about midlife women’s risk for eating disorders.
    — Helen Carefoot, Flow Space, 8 June 2026
  • If my eating disorder were a fire, body-image is the wood upon which the flames burn.
    — Natalie Johnson, NBC News, 9 Oct. 2020
  • Su was in college and had been struggling with an eating disorder.
    — Outside Online, 19 Apr. 2022
  • Weight loss can be the effect of health issues, eating disorders and more.
    — Sara Moniuszko, USA Today, 29 May 2026
  • Floating the idea of rehab for their eating disorder, though, didn’t go over so well.
    — Anna Borges, SELF, 12 Aug. 2025
  • There's going to be a lot of people with eating disorders.
    — Kate Hogan, PEOPLE, 8 Dec. 2025
  • The prevalence of eating disorders has grown sharply in recent years.
    — Liz Szabo, NBC News, 31 July 2024
  • All this comes at a time when eating disorder behaviours are already on the rise.
    — Molly Longman, refinery29.com, 17 May 2021
  • Some of them had eating disorders because of pressure from their own mothers to be thin.
    — Rose Apodaca, Harper's BAZAAR, 2 May 2014
  • And all the makings of a childhood eating disorder that would follow her for life.
    — Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 22 Feb. 2020
  • For someone who is fighting to overcome an eating disorder, this counts for a whole lot.
    — Michelle Konstantinovsky, Wired, 29 Sep. 2020
  • Healing from an eating disorder is a difficult process that many of us will deal with for the rest of our lives.
    — Outside Online, 24 Apr. 2020
  • Much of what Layla says about her eating disorder feels like a warning.
    — Kathleen Walsh, Vulture, 13 Mar. 2026
  • Much of what Layla says about her eating disorder feels like a warning.
    — Kathleen Walsh, Vulture, 14 Mar. 2026
  • There were about seven other teenagers in the ward, mostly girls with eating disorders and one boy.
    — Jaime Lowe, Esquire, 26 Sep. 2017
  • What these videos rarely mention is that eating disorders can be fatal–and that there is help available.
    — Hannah Nwoko, Parents, 17 July 2025
  • The Midnights singer has opened up in the past about her struggles with an eating disorder.
    — Brendan Morrow, The Week, 26 Oct. 2022
  • As of last year, eating disorders were at an all-time high, according to experts.
    — Kalhan Rosenblatt, NBC News, 7 Aug. 2024
  • Some eating disorder experts are not convinced that weight loss drugs are the answer.
    — Sarah Scott, Parents, 13 Sep. 2024
  • That’s clearly true of eating disorders, which have surged in the wake of the pandemic.
    — Sonja Sharp, Los Angeles Times, 30 Nov. 2023
  • She's been open about her struggles with eating disorders, substance use and other forms of self-harm.
    — Kori Williams, Seventeen, 17 Jan. 2020

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