Sample sentences for EMACIATED

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Definition

very thin — especially from disease or hunger or cold

She was emaciated, but the doctor said the chemotherapy cured her cancer.

emaciated = unhealthfully thin

At a gesture from the Demon, the armored ogres stood aside and made way for a horse-drawn cart pulled by two emaciated mares.
Henry H. Neff -- The Second Siege

emaciated = unhealthfully thin

There was blood upon her white robes, and the evidence of some bitter struggle upon every portion of her emaciated frame.
Edgar Allan Poe -- The Fall of the House of Usher

emaciated = unhealthfully thin

But we are emaciated and starved.
Erich Maria Remarque -- All Quiet on the Western Front

emaciated = unhealthfully thin

There wasn't a sound inside the emaciated chest cavity.
Kurt Vonnegut -- Slaughterhouse-Five

emaciated = unhealthfully thin

He recalled with awful clarity the emaciated girl who had begged him to run.
Henry H. Neff -- The Hound of Rowan

emaciated = unhealthfully thin

He remembered his dad's shrunken, emaciated figure toward the end, and he didn't want his daughter to see him that way.
Nicholas Sparks -- The Last Song

emaciated = unhealthfully thin

What's left of Foxface's emaciated body is lifted into the air.
Suzanne Collins -- The Hunger Games

emaciated = very thin (as though having wasted away)

"Aye, Gabriel Marez," the gray, emaciated face smiled weakly, "it does my heart good to see an old compadre, an old vaquero—"
Rudolfo Anaya -- Bless Me, Ultima

emaciated = unhealthfully thin

Gerasim alone did not lie ..., but simply felt sorry for his emaciated and enfeebled master.
Leo Tolstoy -- The Death of Ivan Ilych

emaciated = unhealthfully thin

A poor, emaciated, dried-up Jew questioned him avidly in a trembling voice:
Elie Wiesel -- Night

emaciated = unhealthfully thin

...leading a half-dozen emaciated goats along the side of the road.
Khaled Hosseini -- The Kite Runner

emaciated = unhealthfully thin

Then the van doors opened, and a short, almost emaciated youth of about twenty stepped out.
Tim O'Brien -- Going After Cacciato

emaciated = unhealthfully thin

No emaciated waif, she was solid and female.
Alice Sebold -- Lucky

emaciated = unhealthfully thin

Every man in camp was thin, many emaciated, but Louie and Phil were thinner than anyone else.
Laura Hillenbrand -- Unbroken

emaciated = unhealthfully thin

We're sideswiped by a gurney bearing an unconscious, emaciated young woman with a shaved head.
Suzanne Collins -- Mockingjay

emaciated = unhealthfully thin

He was emaciated and nervous, although he tried to hide it.
Wladyslaw Szpilman -- The Pianist

emaciated = unhealthfully thin

She saw emaciated arms and legs, scarred all over with the marks of countless tortures.
Cassandra Clare -- City of Glass

emaciated = unhealthfully thin

He came forward, holding his belt by one hand. The holes in it marked the progress of his emaciation and...
Cormac McCarthy -- The Road

emaciation = becoming unhealthfully thin

(editor's note: 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.)

All I can think of is the emaciated bodies of the children on our kitchen table as my mother prescribes what the parents can't give.
Suzanne Collins -- Catching Fire

emaciated = unhealthfully thin

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