emaciate - use in sentences

Object

  • frame: How does such a rich voice emerge from an emaciated frame with an oversized balloon head balanced on top, cigarette hanging out?
  • figure: Deep down in the recesses of the coffin lay an emaciated figure.
  • body: Our hearts have been moved as we have seen their emaciated bodies and the deep sunken eyes.
  • man: The picture was of an emaciated young man covered in KS lesions.
  • condition: The Officer-in-Charge had been shocked at our emaciated condition and our obvious weakness.
  • woman: For emaciated women, words such as " wan " and " lithe " can make them sound elegant.

Modifying Another Word

  • so: Never, said those who wrapped her in her shroud, had any living creature been so emaciated and lived.
  • very: Beri beri had caused their legs to swell more than twice their normal size and all looked very emaciated.
  • severely: Small thin birds would tend to run away, unless severely emaciated or dehydrated.
  • terribly: Many POWs did not survive their imprisonment or emerged from incarceration in a terribly emaciated state.
  • badly: Later a vet shot his badly emaciated mom as she was too weak to survive.
  • not: People with bulimia nervosa crave food and binge eat, tho they are not emaciated.

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