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How to use the word malnourished in a Sentence?

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It's going back to the toilet paper shortage, where everybody just started hoarding toilet paper, formula is fundamental for all of us moms who don't have a choice in the matter. And we're going to have babies that are malnourished.

Zurenko Family

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Because it's worse than having no gas, at least if you have no gas, you just sit at home. If you don't have formula — babies are going to die or be malnourished.

Zurenko Family

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

When we receive them on the Panamanian side, they're malnourished. The children are in terrible condition, so even getting them up to a healthy state takes time.

Central American

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

They looked miserable, malnourished, very skinny, very pale with a depressed look on their face.

Joseph Bompartito

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

When I first walked into the examination room, I found this 38-year-old malnourished patient with a weight of 350 pounds and extensive tumor that was about 100 centimeters [ 39 inches ] large. I saw fear in the patient's eyes. She was so hopeless, because she had seen several other doctors, and they were unable to help her, her legs were so swollen that she was unable to walk. I've seen leg swelling, but I've never seen leg swelling of this magnitude.

Vaagn Andikyan

Found on CNN
5 years ago

The big problem is that we've been told that we can nourish ourselves with these ultraprocessed foods, and we cannot. They don't nourish us. That's why I believe that obesity is (at least in part) a malnourished state, as opposed to the standard message being propagated in our society, which is that obesity is an overindulged state, but if that were true, then diets would work.

Roxanne Sukol

Found on CNN
6 years ago

In northern Ghana, 30 percent of children under five are stunted or chronically malnourished, this not only affects their growth but also their educational development and economic potential, and consequently the future of the country.

World Food Programme

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

They fell down, malnourished, and we understand they were then set on by the animals.

Adan Shariff Gabow

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

You could see many were malnourished, starving. They were skinny, tired, severely distressed. There was no smile on anybody's face, the children I talked to said they had no strength to play.

Elizabeth Hoff

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We saw people who are clearly malnourished, especially children, we saw people who are extremely thin, skeletons, that are now barely moving, we saw people that are desperate, people that are cold, people that angry, people that have almost lost hope that the world cares about their plight.

Yacoub El Hillo

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I am really alarmed, people gathered in the market place. You could see many were malnourished, starving. They were skinny, tired, severely distressed. There was no smile on anybody's faces. It is not what you seen when you arrive with a convoy. The children I talked to said they had no strength to play.

Elizabeth Hoff

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We have seen with our own eyes severely malnourished children. I am sure there also malnourished older people and it is true they are malnourished, and so there is starvation.

El Hillo

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We have a whole new group of people who are malnourished because they eat foods that are no good for them, that have no nutritional benefit.

David Tilman

Found on CNN
8 years ago

In Nepal, you already have more than 50% of children malnourished, this was already a nutritional emergency.

Jesse Hartness

Found on CNN
8 years ago

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