How to Use malnutrition in a Sentence

malnutrition

noun
  • And six weeks can bring a child from malnutrition back on track to be healthy.
    — Tommy McArdle, People.com, 18 Apr. 2025
  • And once again, there were signs of malnutrition in the skeletons.
    — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 14 June 2019
  • Most die within a year or two, due to malnutrition and lack of proper care.
    — Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Oct. 2019
  • Joseph is the second child to die from malnutrition in the city during the past few months.
    — Ellen Moynihan, New York Daily News, 6 Nov. 2024
  • More than a million children could die of malnutrition in the next year.
    — CBS News, 24 Oct. 2021
  • Ship strikes and malnutrition have been noted in the death of some of the other whales in the area.
    — Susanne Rust, Los Angeles Times, 24 May 2021
  • Guatemala now has the sixth-highest rate of chronic malnutrition in the world.
    — Washington Post, 1 Apr. 2021
  • Rates of acute malnutrition and excess deaths rise.
    — Nurith Aizenman, NPR, 5 Nov. 2025
  • About one-third of the children there show signs of severe malnutrition.
    — Tom Vanden Brook, USA TODAY, 26 Apr. 2024
  • Like his fellow detainees, his gums were swollen and weak from malnutrition.
    — Jackie Mansky, Smithsonian, 8 Jan. 2018
  • Still, some of their hair is tinted with the orange that is a telltale sign of malnutrition.
    — Washington Post, 14 Nov. 2021
  • Child malnutrition based on weight for age will be only 8%, said the report.
    — Shoaib Daniyal, Quartz India, 2 Jan. 2020
  • Acute malnutrition has taken root in all but one of its 15 states and regions.
    — Washington Post, 4 Feb. 2022
  • Over time, skipping meals leads to malnutrition, and cutting bath time short leads to poor hygiene.
    — Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 5 May 2023
  • The ensuing years have seen high rates of poverty and malnutrition.
    — Tara John, CNN, 21 Aug. 2023
  • For a child, this can translate to stunted growth, malnutrition and wasting.
    — Omer Awan, Forbes.com, 24 Aug. 2025
  • As a result, hunger and malnutrition are on the rise again in the developing world.
    — Christopher B. Barrett, Foreign Affairs, 25 Sep. 2023
  • But the medicines or treatments for malnutrition will expire, Kitchen says.
    — Fatma Tanis, NPR, 6 Apr. 2026
  • His family was poor enough that Serge’s younger brother died of malnutrition at the age of nine.
    — Ben Lerner, The New York Review of Books, 29 Dec. 2022
  • Oh yes, there are a couple of questions on the Nipah virus and malnutrition.
    — Samar Halarnkar, Quartz India, 24 June 2019
  • Those differences seem to be shaped by malnutrition.
    — Jonathan Lambert, NPR, 29 Sep. 2025
  • But that is a boon, not a drawback, in a country that suffers from one of the world’s highest rates of malnutrition.
    — The Economist, 14 Nov. 2019
  • Over the years, droughts have led to crop failure, livestock deaths and millions of cases of malnutrition.
    — Nardos Haile, ajc, 16 Sep. 2022
  • Scientists have found that ship strikes as well as malnutrition are the main causes of deaths in gray whales during the die-off.
    — Tara Duggan, San Francisco Chronicle, 7 May 2021
  • This basic guideline serves to prevent the risks of malnutrition.
    — Dallas News, 22 Dec. 2022
  • There were lots of deaths from malnutrition, from starvation, from children running away from the sheer abuse.
    — Josh Ocampo, New York Times, 25 Feb. 2025
  • Hla Tin has five children, and the youngest two are both suffering from malnutrition.
    — Rebecca Wright, CNN Money, 25 Oct. 2025
  • Any civilian, any child dying of malnutrition is tragic.
    — Isaac Chotiner, New Yorker, 26 Aug. 2025
  • Learning about seal malnutrition has been sobering.
    — Anna Wiener, New Yorker, 4 May 2026
  • To add to the problem, ordinary Cubans face malnutrition due to scarcity and high food prices.
    — Sarah Moreno july 1, Miami Herald, 1 July 2026

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