How to Use malnutrition in a Sentence

malnutrition

noun
  • Ship strikes and malnutrition have been noted in the death of some of the other whales in the area.
    — Susanne Rust, Los Angeles Times, 24 May 2021
  • And six weeks can bring a child from malnutrition back on track to be healthy.
    — Tommy McArdle, People.com, 18 Apr. 2025
  • Joseph is the second child to die from malnutrition in the city during the past few months.
    — Ellen Moynihan, New York Daily News, 6 Nov. 2024
  • And once again, there were signs of malnutrition in the skeletons.
    — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 14 June 2019
  • Guatemala now has the sixth-highest rate of chronic malnutrition in the world.
    — Washington Post, 1 Apr. 2021
  • More than a million children could die of malnutrition in the next year.
    — CBS News, 24 Oct. 2021
  • According to Save the Children, Gaza had the highest rate of child malnutrition in the world.
    — Dorothy Wickenden, The New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2024
  • Most die within a year or two, due to malnutrition and lack of proper care.
    — Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Oct. 2019
  • 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
  • But that is a boon, not a drawback, in a country that suffers from one of the world’s highest rates of malnutrition.
    — The Economist, 14 Nov. 2019
  • 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
  • Oh yes, there are a couple of questions on the Nipah virus and malnutrition.
    — Samar Halarnkar, Quartz India, 24 June 2019
  • 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
  • Child malnutrition based on weight for age will be only 8%, said the report.
    — Shoaib Daniyal, Quartz India, 2 Jan. 2020
  • 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
  • Scientists have found that ship strikes as well as malnutrition are the main causes of deaths in gray whales during the die-off.
    — Tara Duggan, San Francisco Chronicle, 7 May 2021
  • The story was grim: malnutrition contributed to more than half of all child deaths.
    — The Economist, 15 Oct. 2019
  • 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
  • And malnutrition is behind 45 percent of child deaths in the country.
    — NBC News, 5 Aug. 2019
  • 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
  • Doctors reported malnutrition among children, and the United Nations recently warned that people across the enclave were at risk of famine.
    — Samuel Granados, New York Times, 19 May 2025
  • Staff treated the pups, who were suffering from malnutrition and gastrointestinal parasites, and the two were released this month near where they were initially found, officials said.
    — Daniella Segura, Sacbee.com, 14 May 2025

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