anorexiain a sentence
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Prior to Karen Carpenter's death, few had heard of anorexia.
anorexia = a potentially life-threatening psychological eating disorder that prevents people from eating enough food
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"I'm looking at an anorexic," I say.
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anorexic = a person with a potentially life-threatening eating disorder that discourages them from eating enough food
- I had stopped eating, not because of Arnold, whom I had long forgotten, but to be fashionably anorexic like all the other thirteen-year-old girls who were dieting and finding other ways to suffer as teenagers.† (source)
- A few people glance at Emily Gardener, rumored to have anorexia.† (source)
- Kotku claimed to be a "borderline anorexic" and could always get Boris worked up by saying she hadn't eaten anything all day.† (source)
- Her roommate was a new anorexic named Janet who was scheduled for force feedings the moment she dropped below seventy-five.† (source)
- If you run too far, you might be a masochist, an anorexic, or another type, and you will have to see an Official of Psychology for diagnosis.† (source)
- Armansky's star researcher was a pale, anorexic young woman who had hair as short as a fuse, and a pierced nose and eyebrows.† (source)
- "Freak" "Anorexic pig."† (source)
- …get crank back here in Kristina Land, despite Leigh, helping me lug one suitcase, her hand annoyingly pinching mine with every tug, every pull, despite Jake, dropping the other suitcase down an entire flight of stairs, spilling shampoo, lotion, and tampons, despite Scott, smelling depressingly clean, while my own speed-induced body odor reeked ever stronger, despite my mom, insisting I looked fabulous, having dropped four or five pounds, all the while wondering if anorexia had arisen'.† (source)
- Clinically, the animals showed abrupt anorexia [loss of appetite], and lethargy.† (source)
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- Rexi is her word for anorexic, although I've always thought it sounded like something you would name a dog.† (source)
- She was incredibly hot—in that popular-girl-with-bleached-teeth-and-anorexia kind of way, which was Colin's least favorite way of being hot.† (source)
- The gossip at school is that Lindsay is not eating and has got what's it—anorexia.† (source)
- Anorexia, another offers.† (source)
- It's called anorexia nervosa."† (source)
- I know that I wouldn't want to be because I saw a movie once about a girl who died of anorexia and it looked pretty sick.† (source)
- Lettuce and crackers and soup would be bullied into a pulp in the bowl of some bored anorexic; ziti would be mixed with honey and granola; trays would appear heaped with mashed-potato snow women with melted chocolate ice cream for hair.† (source)
- Maynard was about six feet tall, and years of meth-amphetamine and cocaine abuse had left him as thin as an anorexic.† (source)
- They think being anorexic makes them special, makes them better than everybody else.† (source)
- A really HOT anorexic, I want to add, but I don't.† (source)
- Her mother had been short and thin, but nowhere near as anorexic-looking as Salander.† (source)
- And now you're suggesting that you confused anorexia with the fact that my client is small and thin.† (source)
- She said, "I wanted that anorexic-model look, like I've been up partying all night.† (source)
- When an animal began showing signs of anorexia, its condition deteriorated rapidly.† (source)
- That was a piece of cake next to guns and gangs and sexually transmitted diseases, not to mention the things parents had to be concerned about: pedophiles on the Web, designer drugs like ecstasy, school shootings, anorexia, bulimia, self-mutilation, the ozone layer, superbacteria.† (source)
- "I may not be as good as you at investigations, but at least I've found out that you're not a vegetarian or—as Herr Frode thought—anorexic.† (source)
- I'm not anorexic," she says.† (source)
- We suspected anorexia.† (source)
- I called her an anorexic pig.† (source)
- Although, I must admit it makes me feel pretty nervous being around them, like I have to act all perfect and everything—and consequently I can hardly eat at all, I just sort of pick at my food, which has caused Heather to suspect that I am slightly anorexic (which they thought was kind of cool), and I didn't say anything otherwise, although I'm pretty sure that I'm not (even if I am a little on the skinny side).† (source)
- I called her an anorexic pig.† (source)
- Was she anorexic?† (source)
- And then I remember there are a bunch of anorexics who are PROUD to be skinny and starved freaks.† (source)
- "Anorexics are anorexics all the time," she says.† (source)
- What's the difference between bulimics and anorexics?† (source)
- In a week three other waterfront workers and a fisherman at Point Carib were down with something which, even Inchcape Jones acknowledged, was uncomfortably like the description of plague in "Manson's Tropical Diseases": "a prodromal stage characterized by depression, anorexia, aching of the limbs," then the fever, the vertigo, the haggard features, the bloodshot and sunken eyes, the buboes in the groin.† (source)
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