undernourished

How To Use undernourished In A Sentence

• She was undernourished, an observation that prompted yet another unasked question.
• Studies performed in undernourished patients without respiratory disease have suggested that malnutrition may impair skeletal muscle contractility.
• She was thin and undernourished, her pallid skin the colour of the rare arctic mushrooms in Professor Saito's plant laboratory. RUSHING TO PARADISE
• The humiliating injury is called obstetric fistula, a tear in the tissue between the vagina and adjoining organs, caused by prolonged labor in small, undernourished women-and now almost unknown outside the poorest countries of Africa and Asia. NCBlogs
• 1. It's curious that, while women battle obesity like never before, the ideal becomes the cachexic undernourished nearly sexless female. "I found myself saying 'these girls don't look all that thin...'"
• As well as being emotionally undernourished, the children also did not have adequate facilities.
• All the prisoners are overworked and undernourished.
• One morning we came upon an abandoned undernourished puppy on the porch.
• Only once did I hear a soldier make a disparaging remark (young and stupid, he referred to the undernourished locals as "the skinnies").
• It was the look of them, partly: the skanky paper, the low-mirth smudginess of their production; but also the dismalness of the schoolyard world they portrayed: discipline versus cheekiness, small victories, practical jokes, jeering, every teacher undernourished, every kid drawn as though he had rickets. Kalooki Nights