EMACIATED in a Sentence

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32 example sentences for EMACIATED, such as:

1. His long period of starvation had left him emaciated.
2. There were pictures of emaciated children on the cover of the magazine.
3. The tentative diagnosis of the cause of death is emaciation, Martin said.
4. Her hand darted out, fastening over Lawanda's emaciated wrist like a clamp.
5. His emaciated regiment bustled forth with undiminished fierceness when its time came.

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 Meanings and Examples of EMACIATED
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
emaciated
 a.  very thin especially from disease or hunger
Classic Sentence: (27 in 2 pages)
1  He was a small emaciated animal and he stood with his head dispiritedly low, almost between his forelegs.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
2  Carreen and Suellen, emaciated and white, slept brokenly and awoke to mumble with wide, staring eyes in the tall four-poster bed where they had whispered together in better, happier days.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
3  He was emaciated and he coughed as he lay in an easy chair in the sunshine with a shawl across his knees, but his face lit up when he saw her.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIX
4  His shirt was hanging open, and his emaciated chest, covered with yellow bristle, rose and fell horribly.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: VIII
5  Henrietta was about twenty-two years of age, Mary was about fourteen; and of all the mangled and emaciated creatures I ever looked upon, these two were the most so.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
6  His emaciated regiment bustled forth with undiminished fierceness when its time came.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 22
7  Her complexion was sallow and unhealthy, her cheeks thin, her features sharp, and her whole form emaciated.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII
8  His beautiful, emaciated head, the glaring daylight shining full upon it, lay on the white pillow like the head of a dead man.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
9  A door opened to the right, and an emaciated sallow man on crutches, barefoot and in underclothing, limped out and, leaning against the doorpost, looked with glittering envious eyes at those who were passing.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER XVII
10  Natasha was standing in the middle of the drawing room, emaciated, with a pale set face, but not at all shamefaced as Pierre expected to find her.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER XXII
11  The old valet Tikhon, with sunken, emaciated face that bore the stamp of inconsolable grief, replied: "Yes, Princess" to all Princess Mary's questions and hardly refrained from sobbing as he looked at her.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER X
12  His emaciated young face, disfigured by the half-shaven head, hung down hopelessly.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 11: CHAPTER XXV
13  And so, brother," he continued, with a smile on his pale emaciated face and a particularly happy light in his eyes, "you see, brother.
War and Peace 5 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 14: CHAPTER XIII
14  She looked down at her expanded figure and in the glass at her pale, sallow, emaciated face in which her eyes now looked larger than ever.
War and Peace 6 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 16: CHAPTER IX
15  His limbs were nearly frozen, and his body dreadfully emaciated by fatigue and suffering.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Letter 4
Example Sentence:
1  Her hand darted out, fastening over Lawanda's emaciated wrist like a clamp.
2  His long period of starvation had left him emaciated.
3  A "severely emaciated" finback whale that has likely been sick for some time beached itself at Breezy Point, where it was likely to die.
4  There were pictures of emaciated children on the cover of the magazine.
5  The tentative diagnosis of the cause of death is emaciation, Martin said.