How to Use emaciated in a Sentence

emaciated

adjective
  • The body of Jesus hangs like a lifeless, gaunt and emaciated husk.
    — Mike Lowenberg, Twin Cities, 7 Feb. 2025
  • To prepare for the scene in which Neo wakes up in a pod, Keanu Reeves lost fifteen pounds and shaved his whole body to give Neo an emaciated look.
    — Andy Meek, BGR, 16 Dec. 2021
  • Those that did not starve to death weren’t much better off: emaciated, sick and unable to produce healthy young.
    — Kevin Spear, Orlando Sentinel, 19 Jan. 2025
  • Pictures of their emaciated corpses were shown in court.
    — Kali Nicole Gross / Made By History, TIME, 19 Sep. 2024
  • 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
  • The body of a hiker missing since March 16 was found Thursday in a city park and his dog was still there at his side, alive but emaciated, reports say.
    — Cliff Pinckard, cleveland, 3 Apr. 2022
  • At least one of the emaciated dogs had been reported stolen, police said.
    — Thomas Tracy, New York Daily News, 5 Mar. 2024
  • Linda Tokarz became the owner of a very large but emaciated black cat that arrived many years ago on the back deck of her Greenbelt, Md., home.
    — John Kelly, Washington Post, 8 Dec. 2020
  • One call brought her to a man, paralyzed and emaciated, who couldn’t feed himself.
    — Kamila Hrabchuk, Washington Post, 1 Jan. 2024
  • But Claudia, ever the hunter, stalks the night in search of other vampires and finds an emaciated, corpse-like figure feasting on soldiers in the woods.
    — Hunter Ingram, Variety, 13 May 2024
  • 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
  • Then there was the Nordhausen concentration camp, some 400 miles and a world away, where trenches were piled high with the emaciated bodies of the Nazis’ victims.
    — Brandy Schillace, WSJ, 17 Feb. 2023
  • An emaciated pit bull was found lying near a creek in a wooded area across from the Cuyahoga County Airport Nov. 5.
    — cleveland, 9 Nov. 2022
  • 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
  • That’s crazy to me: divine love shown to us through a disgusting and emaciated corpse hanging on a tool of execution.
    — Mike Lowenberg, Twin Cities, 7 Feb. 2025
  • Israeli forces found their emaciated corpses two days later in a tunnel 65 feet under a Gazan child’s bedroom.
    — TIME, 25 Sep. 2024
  • Police found Ruby Franke’s son, 12, emaciated, wounded and bound with duct tape Aug. 30.
    — Daysia Tolentino, NBC News, 30 Nov. 2023
  • In February, a 46-foot-long whale was found washed up on an Oregon shore — emaciated, entangled and covered in what appears to be wounds from killer whales.
    — CBS News, 20 Nov. 2024
  • Visitors’ eyes widen in horror at the sight of the mutilated and emaciated bodies filling the morgue.
    — Dominique Soguel, The Christian Science Monitor, 20 Dec. 2024
  • In photos shared by the outlets, Kumar appeared heavily emaciated and covered in dirt at the time of her rescue.
    — Samira Asma-Sadeque, Peoplemag, 31 July 2024
  • 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
  • The authors suggested the emaciated whale may have approached the photographers’ friend’s boat to seek cover from the other whale.
    — Matt Lavietes, NBC News, 29 Feb. 2024
  • 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
  • That said, offensive numbers two weeks into the season are so emaciated as to be laughable.
    — Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, 27 Apr. 2022
  • Because he wasn’t dehydrated or emaciated, Ullman estimates that the dog hadn’t been in the wilderness for more than a couple of days.
    — Jonathan Edwards, Washington Post, 15 Nov. 2023
  • At the same time, the images of the emaciated Israeli hostages released on February 8 were a stark reminder to Israel of the urgency of an agreement on the second phase, before more hostages die.
    — Philip H. Gordon, Foreign Affairs, 19 Feb. 2025
  • Survivors emerged emaciated and barely able to walk, according to reports, and at least 13 children were among those rescued.
    — Michael Gfoeller and David H. Rundell, Newsweek, 16 Jan. 2025
  • Three weeks later, Papini reappeared on the side of a highway in Yolo County, bruised and emaciated, with her long blond hair sheared short and right shoulder branded.
    — Hannah Wiley, Los Angeles Times, 28 Mar. 2024
  • Four minors were taken into the care of the Department of Child and Family Services following a search of the home where the emaciated juveniles were found.
    — Daysia Tolentino, NBC News, 31 Aug. 2023
  • Most of them resurfaced on their own over the last few months, police said, and all the survivors have been arrested, even as some emerged this week badly emaciated and barely able to walk to waiting ambulances.
    — Mogomotsi Magome and Gerald Imray, Los Angeles Times, 16 Jan. 2025

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