Sample Sentences for
emaciated
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  • ...leading a half-dozen emaciated goats along the side of the road.  (source)
  • There wasn't a sound inside the emaciated chest cavity.  (source)
  • He was emaciated and nervous, although he tried to hide it.  (source)
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  • But we are emaciated and starved.  (source)
    emaciated = unhealthfully thin
  • He came forward, holding his belt by one hand. The holes in it marked the progress of his emaciation and...  (source)
    emaciation = becoming unhealthfully thin
    standard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
  • At a gesture from the Demon, the armored ogres stood aside and made way for a horse-drawn cart pulled by two emaciated mares.  (source)
    emaciated = unhealthfully thin
  • He'd lost much of his hair since turning fifty, and his belly, always undernourished in appearance, now suggested a shriveled emaciation.†  (source)
  • No emaciated waif, she was solid and female.  (source)
  • But what was startling was the emaciation of his face.†  (source)
  • Then the van doors opened, and a short, almost emaciated youth of about twenty stepped out.  (source)
  • He was gaunt almost to emaciation and had lost track of time.†  (source)
  • "Aye, Gabriel Marez," the gray, emaciated face smiled weakly, "it does my heart good to see an old compadre, an old vaquero—"  (source)
  • A man with a big frame but gaunt now almost to emaciation, with a short reddish beard which resembled a disguise and above which his pale eyes had a quality at once visionary and alert, ruthless and reposed in a face whose flesh had the appearance of pottery, of having been colored by that oven's fever either of soul or environment, deeper than sun alone beneath a dead impervious surface as of glazed clay.†  (source)
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