EMACIATION in a Sentence

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32 example sentences for EMACIATION, 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 EMACIATION
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
emaciation
 n.  act of making lean or thin in flesh; state of becoming thin by gradual wasting of flesh
Classic Sentence: (27 in 2 pages)
1  A formidable warrior, his thin and severe features retained the soldier's fierceness of expression; an ascetic bigot, they were no less marked by the emaciation of abstinence, and the spiritual pride of the self-satisfied devotee.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
2  Yet this emaciation seemed to be his natural habit, and due to no disease, for his eye was bright, his step brisk, and his bearing assured.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In IX. THE ADVENTURE OF THE ENGINEER’S THUMB
3  The other, who was secured in a similar fashion, was a tall man in the last stage of emaciation, with several strips of sticking-plaster arranged in a grotesque pattern over his face.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In X. The Adventure of The Greek Interpreter
4  Terrible as his brother Nikolay had been before in his emaciation and sickliness, now he looked still more emaciated, still more wasted.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 3: Chapter 31
5  In spite of his exaggerated stoop, and the emaciation that was so striking from his height, his movements were as rapid and abrupt as ever.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 3: Chapter 31
6  His eyes, prominent from the emaciation of his face, gazed inquiringly at his comrades who were paying no attention to him, and he moaned regularly and quietly.
War and Peace 5 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 13: CHAPTER XIII
7  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
8  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
9  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
10  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
11  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
12  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
13  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
14  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
15  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
Example Sentence:
1  The tentative diagnosis of the cause of death is emaciation, Martin said.
2  Her hand darted out, fastening over Lawanda's emaciated wrist like a clamp.
3  His long period of starvation had left him emaciated.
4  A "severely emaciated" finback whale that has likely been sick for some time beached itself at Breezy Point, where it was likely to die.
5  There were pictures of emaciated children on the cover of the magazine.