How to Use emaciated in a Sentence

emaciated

adjective
  • But even then, there are hints of the flesh that could embellish this emaciated skeleton.
    — Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 26 Dec. 2025
  • At least one of the emaciated dogs had been reported stolen, police said.
    — Thomas Tracy, New York Daily News, 5 Mar. 2024
  • The body of Jesus hangs like a lifeless, gaunt and emaciated husk.
    — Mike Lowenberg, Twin Cities, 7 Feb. 2025
  • Zona was emaciated and malnourished at the time of her death, police said.
    — Jt Moodee Lockman, CBS News, 26 Feb. 2026
  • One call brought her to a man, paralyzed and emaciated, who couldn’t feed himself.
    — Kamila Hrabchuk, Washington Post, 1 Jan. 2024
  • Images released last week of emaciated children have shocked the world.
    — Barney Henderson, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 July 2025
  • The man, who has not been named, was found emaciated and told police he had been confined in the home since age 11.
    — Peter D'abrosca, Fox News, 21 Mar. 2025
  • Given how emaciated and unwell the kitten was, Neveux couldn’t help but fear the worst.
    — Alyce Collins, MSNBC Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2025
  • As Taymia, who has a double heart defect, grew weak and emaciated, lawyers and human rights groups took up her cause.
    — Ben Hubbard, BostonGlobe.com, 31 May 2020
  • With hollow eyes and emaciated bodies, the hungry cry out, desperate for the world to heed their call.
    — ABC News, 27 July 2025
  • Friends were concerned that despite her therapy Karen still looked emaciated and was yet to put on weight.
    — Seth Abramovitch, The Hollywood Reporter, 31 Oct. 2023
  • They have been seen in an emaciated state in proof-of-life and propaganda videos produced by Hamas.
    — Brady Knox, The Washington Examiner, 10 Oct. 2025
  • The child attended public school, and the principal has said that the child looked emaciated.
    — Nicholas Tampio, Hartford Courant, 29 May 2025
  • Leopard dogs that arrived at Alaqua emaciated and too scared to walk through a door are now happy, healthy canines.
    — Kelli Bender, PEOPLE, 30 Oct. 2025
  • Reintroducing food to an emaciated body can be dangerous and even lethal if done too quickly.
    — Katie Engelhart, New York Times, 3 Jan. 2024
  • That said, offensive numbers two weeks into the season are so emaciated as to be laughable.
    — Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, 27 Apr. 2022
  • Rahim lost about 40 pounds to play Amin, every inch of his emaciated, wiry frame consumed with getting its next fix.
    — Los Angeles Times, 26 Mar. 2026
  • His blue jogging bottoms hang off his emaciated legs, as his tiny ribcage protrudes from his billowy orange T-shirt.
    — Abdel Qadder Sabbah, CNN, 25 June 2024
  • An emaciated baby gray fox found near his dead mother in an electrical sub-station was covered in a sticky substance.
    — Karina Bland, azcentral, 5 June 2020
  • An emaciated man sat by a child stretched out semiconscious on a cot, where two other small children were receiving oxygen.
    — Jon Lee Anderson, New Yorker, 24 Nov. 2025
  • Shearwaters are nocturnal, so every dawn, the scientists go to the beach to find chicks that were too weak and emaciated to make the flight.
    — Laura Paddison, CNN Money, 23 May 2025
  • Images of emaciated Palestinian children have shocked many around the world.
    — Mahmoud Issa, Reuters, 2 Aug. 2025
  • The emaciated boy, whose wrists and ankles were duct taped together, was seen on a Ring camera begging a neighbor for help.
    — Kc Baker, People.com, 26 Feb. 2025
  • David was emaciated, practically a skeleton, and moved in slow motion.
    — Seth Mandel, The Washington Examiner, 8 Aug. 2025
  • In late-stage chronic wasting disease, deer often appear emaciated and gaunt, Labonte said.
    — Stephen Underwood, Hartford Courant, 28 Apr. 2026
  • Now free, Alma’s emaciated, adult form wanders the world, unending rage bent on revenge.
    — Will Borger, Rolling Stone, 31 Oct. 2025
  • According to police reports, the child had remnants of duct tape on his hands and ankles and appeared emaciated and wounded.
    — Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 27 Dec. 2023
  • Israeli forces found their emaciated corpses two days later in a tunnel 65 feet under a Gazan child’s bedroom.
    — TIME, 25 Sep. 2024
  • The dog was found emaciated and without access to food or water by animal control officers.
    — Jack Perry, The Providence Journal, 15 Jan. 2026
  • Only after a court was shown video footage from inside the mine showing dozens of bodies and emaciated survivors did the government launch a rescue.
    — Tommy Trenchard, NPR, 23 Aug. 2025

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