How to Use underfeed in a Sentence

underfeed

verb

• Those soldiers were often ill-trained and underfed.
  — Meredith Oyen, The Conversation, 2 Sep. 2025
• When an orchid is underfed or not fed at all, the orchid will eventually weaken and stop growing.
  — Sj McShane, Martha Stewart, 19 Jan. 2026
• Children were underfed, heavily worked, and educated foremost in the tenets of faith.
  — Kristen Martin, New Yorker, 23 Nov. 2025
• Underslept, underdressed, and underfed—as might happen when one is forced to adhere to a 5,000-year-old lifestyle—Silvie drifts along on eddies of dread, the doomed heroine of some endless folk song, each verse tinged with more horror than the last.
  — Emily Temple, Literary Hub, 11 May 2020
• The Arizona Department of Child Safety received a report in March 2016 with concerns that Sanaa might be neglected and underfed.
  — Perry Vandell, AZCentral.com, 29 Sep. 2025
• Although Amentum was not the camp’s primary contractor at the time an Associated Press investigation was published in March, detainees reported being underfed and in fear of brutal guards.
  — Jake Sheridan, Chicago Tribune, 17 July 2026