How to Use food insecure in a Sentence

food insecure

adjective
  • Many of those whom the church feeds are homeless or food insecure.
    — Susan Selasky, Detroit Free Press, 9 Feb. 2024
  • Three out of 10 people with kids are food insecure right now.
    — The Atlantic, 26 Oct. 2020
  • Nearly as many of those who are food insecure don't have secure housing.
    — Mará Rose Williams, kansascity, 5 Apr. 2018
  • School meals are a consistent food source for students who are food insecure.
    — Eryka Forquer, The Arizona Republic, 16 Sep. 2022
  • Of the counties the campaign serves, one in five children are food insecure.
    — Nikki Delamotte, cleveland.com, 30 Apr. 2018
  • Even with all this food waste, 15 million children still live in food insecure homes.
    — Matthew Glasser, ABC News, 27 Sep. 2024
  • Many of the worst impacts of food prices are being felt in countries that are already food insecure.
    — Adam Taylor, Washington Post, 20 May 2022
  • Eighty percent of their produce goes to food insecure neighbors.
    — Juli McDonald, CBS News, 16 Apr. 2026
  • What's worse, 33% of households with single moms are food insecure.
    — Journal Sentinel, 11 Jan. 2024
  • Adults whose grocery costs increased a lot were about twice as likely as other adults to be food insecure, the study found.
    — Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 21 Mar. 2023
  • Asia and Africa are home to the majority of people in the world who are food insecure.
    — Washington Post, 23 June 2021
  • Throughout North Texas, one in four children is food insecure.
    — Dallas News, 1 July 2021
  • In the Chicago area, one out of every five households with children is food insecure.
    — Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 13 Jan. 2025
  • That would be on top of the 318 million people around the world who are already food insecure.
    — ABC News, 5 June 2026
  • And for families who are food insecure, the daily struggle to keep bellies full can become even more fraught.
    — Washington Post, 10 Apr. 2022
  • That amounts to one in every eight people in the state being food insecure — and that was in 2019.
    — Sarah Bowman, The Indianapolis Star, 23 Dec. 2021
  • While the number of meals being distributed to food insecure Hoosiers doubled, so did the need.
    — Holly V. Hays, The Indianapolis Star, 9 Dec. 2021
  • One in four post-9/11 veterans is food insecure.
    — Cari Shane, USA Today, 6 Nov. 2025
  • In the beginning, for example, we were focused on how to feed folks in the industry who were food insecure.
    — Jenny Feldt, Bon Appétit, 19 May 2021
  • The families are food insecure.
    — Graham Womack may 9, Sacbee.com, 9 May 2026
  • Yolo Food Bank released a study last year that found that nearly one in three households in the county are food insecure.
    — Mathew Miranda, Sacbee.com, 18 Apr. 2025
  • People in the United States who are food insecure will feel these higher costs the most, says Thilmany.
    — Tom Gavin, EverydayHealth.com, 9 Apr. 2025
  • For many of the Northside staffers, helping feed the food insecure is a way to ensure better learning in the classroom.
    — Tom Orsborn, ExpressNews.com, 10 July 2020
  • In the United States about 12 percent of people are what’s called food insecure.
    — Aubrey Nagle, Philly.com, 21 May 2018
  • Across the entire county, about 16% of residents are food insecure.
    — Ciara McCarthy, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 10 Nov. 2025
  • In San Diego, more than a half-million adults — 1 in 4 — are food insecure, as are 1 in 3 children.
    — Steven P. Dinkin, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Dec. 2022
  • The report also found that one in four low-income households remained food insecure in 2021.
    — Los Angeles Times, 1 Aug. 2022
  • With the lack of federal funding, food banks, which were already a stopgap measure for food insecure families, will become even more strained.
    — Elizabeth B. Kim, Cincinnati Enquirer, 29 Oct. 2025
  • One in eight Minnesotans are food insecure—up from 1 in 11 before the pandemic—and lines of cars clog traffic near food pantries.
    — Elizabeth Merrill, History & Culture, 21 Dec. 2020
  • The show will also take an in-depth look at hunger in Louisville and how area farmers are partnering with Dare to Care to feed the food insecure.
    — Kirby Adams, The Courier-Journal, 9 Jan. 2020

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