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)
- Kotku claimed to be a "borderline anorexic" and could always get Boris worked up by saying she hadn't eaten anything all day.† (source)
- A few people glance at Emily Gardener, rumored to have anorexia.† (source)
- Her roommate was a new anorexic named Janet who was scheduled for force feedings the moment she dropped below seventy-five.† (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)
- 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)
- Anorexic pig.† (source)
- Rexi is her word for anorexic, although I've always thought it sounded like something you would name a dog.† (source)
- 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)
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- The lesions by this time were showing a pattern of marked splenomegaly [swollen spleen]—strikingly thy on cut surface, enlarged kidneys, and sporadic occurrences of hemorrhage in a variety of organs....Clinically, the animals showed abrupt anorexia [loss of appetite], and lethargy.† (source)
- Anorexia, another offers.† (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)
- 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)
- It's called anorexia nervosa.† (source)
- The gossip at school is that Lindsay is not eating and has got what's it—anorexia.† (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 called her an anorexic pig.† (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 called her an anorexic pig.† (source)
- I'm not anorexic," she says.† (source)
- We suspected anorexia.† (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)
- 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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