How to Use malnutrition in a Sentence

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  • More than a million children could die of malnutrition in the next year.
    — CBS News, 24 Oct. 2021
  • As a result, hunger and malnutrition are on the rise again in the developing world.
    — Christopher B. Barrett, Foreign Affairs, 25 Sep. 2023
  • Still, some of their hair is tinted with the orange that is a telltale sign of malnutrition.
    — Washington Post, 14 Nov. 2021
  • About one-third of the children there show signs of severe malnutrition.
    — Tom Vanden Brook, USA TODAY, 26 Apr. 2024
  • His family was poor enough that Serge’s younger brother died of malnutrition at the age of nine.
    — Ben Lerner, The New York Review of Books, 29 Dec. 2022
  • Acute malnutrition has taken root in all but one of its 15 states and regions.
    — Washington Post, 4 Feb. 2022
  • Two of those died of malnutrition during the first days of Ramadan, according to the ministry.
    — Sana Noor Haq, CNN, 13 Mar. 2024
  • There had been a blight on the farms in recent years, and from the resulting malnutrition, the mothers could not produce milk to feed their babes.
    — Ottessa Moshfegh, Harper’s Magazine , 25 May 2022
  • Over the years, droughts have led to crop failure, livestock deaths and millions of cases of malnutrition.
    — Nardos Haile, ajc, 16 Sep. 2022
  • The study also found that malnutrition can also cause heart damage: the very thing Betz was trying to avoid.
    — Audrey Richardson and Aurora Sousanis, Detroit Free Press, 17 Mar. 2024
  • Ahmed, 3, his feet swollen by malnutrition, died first.
    — Washington Post, 30 June 2022
  • Sadly, Agnes died at five months old, due to malnutrition.
    — Madeleine Kearns, National Review, 14 Jan. 2024
  • Over time, skipping meals leads to malnutrition, and cutting bath time short leads to poor hygiene.
    — Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 5 May 2023
  • Feeling cold may be caused by malnutrition and low body fat.
    — Amanda Gardner, Health, 25 Apr. 2023
  • The ensuing years have seen high rates of poverty and malnutrition.
    — Tara John, CNN, 21 Aug. 2023
  • This may seem unproductive, to just give people the means to live but look at the cost of homelessness, poverty, and the malnutrition of our kids.
    — Jarl Jensen, Forbes, 6 July 2022
  • This basic guideline serves to prevent the risks of malnutrition.
    — Dallas News, 22 Dec. 2022
  • In recent weeks, at least eight inmates in southern Haiti, not connected to the Moïse case, have died from heat and malnutrition.
    — DÁnica Coto, BostonGlobe.com, 7 July 2022
  • In a malnutrition ward of a hospital in southern Afghanistan, Shukria, 40, sat with her 1-year-old grandson, Mahtab, his mouth craned open but body too weak to let out a cry.
    — New York Times, 27 Nov. 2021
  • Before the conflict, her team had been racing to combat a wave of malaria and malnutrition in Darfur ahead of the June rainy season.
    — Cora Engelbrecht, New York Times, 7 June 2023
  • Here, children waiting for meals of beans and arepas bear the telltale signs of malnutrition: skinny limbs, hair turned rust yellow.
    — Julie Turkewitz Federico Rios, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2023
  • When his stomach swelled from malnutrition, a healer gave him medicine made from roots and burned his stomach with incense to chase out the evil spirits.
    — Rachel Swan, San Francisco Chronicle, 21 Sep. 2021
  • Dozens of the passengers died of malnutrition and disease.
    — Deneen L. Brown, Washington Post, 26 Sep. 2022
  • In the former, there are two million total malnutrition deaths in 2050.
    — Bjorn Lomborg, WSJ, 7 Oct. 2021
  • Our models include the effects of acute malnutrition on death rates.
    — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 24 Feb. 2024
  • Her 11-month-old son is slowly slipping away due to malnutrition.
    — Fox News, 20 Aug. 2022
  • But Gaza is unusual for the speed with which people have been pushed into malnutrition.
    — Stephanie Nolen, New York Times, 11 Jan. 2024
  • That was almost 20 years ago, and now his malnutrition effort is stronger than ever.
    — The Salt Lake Tribune, 1 Feb. 2022
  • The finding suggested repairing the microbiome might lessen the effects of malnutrition in children.
    — Byelizabeth Pennisi, science.org, 2 Oct. 2024
  • The infant – whose name has not been released – also suffered from heat stress, dehydration, malnutrition, and neglect, according to the coroner’s office.
    — Emily Palmer, People.com, 17 Oct. 2024

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