How to Use malnutrition in a Sentence

malnutrition

noun

• Ship strikes and malnutrition have been noted in the death of some of the other whales in the area.
  — Susanne Rust, Los Angeles Times, 24 May 2021
• And six weeks can bring a child from malnutrition back on track to be healthy.
  — Tommy McArdle, People.com, 18 Apr. 2025
• Joseph is the second child to die from malnutrition in the city during the past few months.
  — Ellen Moynihan, New York Daily News, 6 Nov. 2024
• Guatemala now has the sixth-highest rate of chronic malnutrition in the world.
  — Washington Post, 1 Apr. 2021
• More than a million children could die of malnutrition in the next year.
  — CBS News, 24 Oct. 2021
• According to Save the Children, Gaza had the highest rate of child malnutrition in the world.
  — Dorothy Wickenden, The New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2024
• Most die within a year or two, due to malnutrition and lack of proper care.
  — Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Oct. 2019
• As a result, hunger and malnutrition are on the rise again in the developing world.
  — Christopher B. Barrett, Foreign Affairs, 25 Sep. 2023
• Still, some of their hair is tinted with the orange that is a telltale sign of malnutrition.
  — Washington Post, 14 Nov. 2021
• But that is a boon, not a drawback, in a country that suffers from one of the world’s highest rates of malnutrition.
  — The Economist, 14 Nov. 2019
• About one-third of the children there show signs of severe malnutrition.
  — Tom Vanden Brook, USA TODAY, 26 Apr. 2024
• His family was poor enough that Serge’s younger brother died of malnutrition at the age of nine.
  — Ben Lerner, The New York Review of Books, 29 Dec. 2022
• Acute malnutrition has taken root in all but one of its 15 states and regions.
  — Washington Post, 4 Feb. 2022
• Two of those died of malnutrition during the first days of Ramadan, according to the ministry.
  — Sana Noor Haq, CNN, 13 Mar. 2024
• There had been a blight on the farms in recent years, and from the resulting malnutrition, the mothers could not produce milk to feed their babes.
  — Ottessa Moshfegh, Harper’s Magazine , 25 May 2022
• Child malnutrition based on weight for age will be only 8%, said the report.
  — Shoaib Daniyal, Quartz India, 2 Jan. 2020
• Over the years, droughts have led to crop failure, livestock deaths and millions of cases of malnutrition.
  — Nardos Haile, ajc, 16 Sep. 2022
• The study also found that malnutrition can also cause heart damage: the very thing Betz was trying to avoid.
  — Audrey Richardson and Aurora Sousanis, Detroit Free Press, 17 Mar. 2024
• Scientists have found that ship strikes as well as malnutrition are the main causes of deaths in gray whales during the die-off.
  — Tara Duggan, San Francisco Chronicle, 7 May 2021
• The story was grim: malnutrition contributed to more than half of all child deaths.
  — The Economist, 15 Oct. 2019
• Ahmed, 3, his feet swollen by malnutrition, died first.
  — Washington Post, 30 June 2022
• Sadly, Agnes died at five months old, due to malnutrition.
  — Madeleine Kearns, National Review, 14 Jan. 2024
• Over time, skipping meals leads to malnutrition, and cutting bath time short leads to poor hygiene.
  — Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 5 May 2023
• Feeling cold may be caused by malnutrition and low body fat.
  — Amanda Gardner, Health, 25 Apr. 2023
• The ensuing years have seen high rates of poverty and malnutrition.
  — Tara John, CNN, 21 Aug. 2023
• This may seem unproductive, to just give people the means to live but look at the cost of homelessness, poverty, and the malnutrition of our kids.
  — Jarl Jensen, Forbes, 6 July 2022
• This basic guideline serves to prevent the risks of malnutrition.
  — Dallas News, 22 Dec. 2022
• In recent weeks, at least eight inmates in southern Haiti, not connected to the Moïse case, have died from heat and malnutrition.
  — The Christian Science Monitor, 7 July 2022
• In recent weeks, at least eight inmates in southern Haiti, not connected to the Moïse case, have died from heat and malnutrition.
  — DÁnica Coto, BostonGlobe.com, 7 July 2022
• Action in every part of the world will be needed to keep pushing malnutrition toward zero.
  — Christine Ro, Forbes.com, 15 Apr. 2025