How to Use malnutrition in a Sentence

malnutrition

noun

• As a result, hunger and malnutrition are on the rise again in the developing world.
  — Christopher B. Barrett, Foreign Affairs, 25 Sep. 2023
• 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
• Two of those died of malnutrition during the first days of Ramadan, according to the ministry.
  — Sana Noor Haq, CNN, 13 Mar. 2024
• 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
• 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 basic guideline serves to prevent the risks of malnutrition.
  — Dallas News, 22 Dec. 2022
• Before the conflict, her team had been racing to combat a wave of malaria and malnutrition in Darfur ahead of the June rainy season.
  — Cora Engelbrecht, New York Times, 7 June 2023
• Here, children waiting for meals of beans and arepas bear the telltale signs of malnutrition: skinny limbs, hair turned rust yellow.
  — Julie Turkewitz Federico Rios, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2023
• Dozens of the passengers died of malnutrition and disease.
  — Deneen L. Brown, Washington Post, 26 Sep. 2022
• Our models include the effects of acute malnutrition on death rates.
  — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 24 Feb. 2024
• Her 11-month-old son is slowly slipping away due to malnutrition.
  — Fox News, 20 Aug. 2022
• But Gaza is unusual for the speed with which people have been pushed into malnutrition.
  — Stephanie Nolen, New York Times, 11 Jan. 2024
• Yet, climate change is now undermining what progress has been made across the continent in the last few decades–with hunger, malnutrition, and poverty all on the rise.
  — Joyce Banda, Fortune, 22 June 2023
• Jim Downs: What she's really faced with are high rates of malnutrition, starvation, the fact that people don't have shoes.
  — Dominique Janee, Scientific American, 2 Nov. 2023
• Despite the hope that this brief reunion may have offered, Anne and her sister, Margot, died of disease and malnutrition.
  — Francine Prose, Washington Post, 2 June 2023
• And around Kenya’s capital, Africa’s largest school meals program launched to reduce hunger and malnutrition.
  — Cameron Pugh, The Christian Science Monitor, 11 Sep. 2023
• To detect famine, the I.P.C. measures rates of hunger, malnutrition and death over short periods, usually three to six months.
  — Declan Walsh, New York Times, 13 Dec. 2022
• During his door-to-door sales, Zong learned that many children were picky eaters and suffered from varying degrees of malnutrition, which was a big headache for parents.
  — Nectar Gan, CNN, 26 Feb. 2024
• Kapahi added that the study's findings do not mean people should starve themselves, saying that could lead to malnutrition and poor mental health.
  — Berkeley Lovelace Jr., NBC News, 9 Feb. 2023
• Thousands of people have died in a drought gripping Somalia, with the U.N. saying half a million children are at risk of death due to malnutrition or near famine.
  — Aya Batrawy, Fortune, 24 Oct. 2022
• The wildlife rehabilitation group added that the pink pigeon, which Wild Bird Fund has dubbed Flamingo, is young but shows signs of long-term malnutrition.
  — Kelli Bender, Peoplemag, 2 Feb. 2023
• Three men nearby were making a tiny coffin for a two-year-old girl named Estella who succumbed to malnutrition.
  — Lynsey Chutel Joao Silva, New York Times, 16 Nov. 2022
• Rwanda is one of the poorest countries in the world: the gross per-capita income is currently $2.28 a day, and more than a third of children under five are stunted from malnutrition.
  — Nicola Twilley, The New Yorker, 15 Aug. 2022
• One of its clinics in Somalia saw acute malnutrition cases rise eightfold in four months.
  — Belinda Luscombe, Time, 13 Oct. 2022
• Most people in the north don't have access to hospitals, and experts fear the actual numbers of malnutrition are much higher.
  — Fatma Tanis, NPR, 29 Mar. 2024
• The United Nations said late last month that one in six children under 2 in northern Gaza was suffering acute malnutrition.
  — Ethan Baron, The Mercury News, 16 Mar. 2024

Last Updated: 3 May 2024