How To Use Emaciate In A Sentence

  • The truth is, there is a certain diet which emaciates men more than any possible degree of abstinence; though I do not remember to have seen any caution against it, either in Cheney, Arbuthnot, or in any other modern writer or regimen. The Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon
  • My father was quite a skinny, emaciated man, my brother a build a stark halfway between my father and I.
  • Vasudeva said," Do not, O tiger among men, indulge in such grief that emaciates thy body. The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12
  • A key component of that warfare by the ubër rich was to emaciate or destroy the unions through new laws restricting unionization, bankruptcy courts killing labor contracts, diversion of pension funds, abusive tactics against organizers, shipping jobs elsewhere and PR campaigns vilifying the very concept of collective bargaining to redress serious economic disadvantages. Sneak Attack
  • The animals included seven yearlings which an RSPCA vet said were emaciated and suffering from malnutrition.
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  • The eyes were open—grotesquely oversize in his emaciated face, and bright yellow, the pupils as small as pinpricks—from which dribbled ocherous tears the consistency of curd. The Curse of the Wendigo
  • She was an emaciated, hollow-eyed ghost of a figure who approached me on the road one day, saying she had heard that I ‘helped people,’ and would I help her.
  • a harvest of new plants in the garden; for the rose-trees, emaciated with leaflessness, had each a shadow that twisted on the earth like ground-ivy or climbed the wall like a creeper. The Judge
  • And by close application to my book at night, my visage became considerally emaciated by extreme perspiration, having no lucubratory aparatus, no candle, no lamp, nor even light-wood, being chiefly raised in oaky woods. The poetical works of George M. Horton : the colored bard of North Carolina : to which is prefixed the life of the author, written by himself,
  • There is was with a chicken leg in its mouth, grinning in such a way only an emaciated mongrel kitten-cat can grin.
  • The pleading look on his face, the rags on his body and his emaciated frame move you so much that you immediately put a coin on the outstretched hands.
  • Every size and color of the human spectrum was represented: young and old; men and women; black, white, and brown; bloated and emaciated; tattooed and unscarred; hairy and bald; well-endowed and not—all lying stiffly in the pale pallor of death. Law of Attraction
  • Both had the same hard delicacy of form and feature, both were tall and almost emaciated, both had a sparse growth of gray blond hair far back from high intellectual foreheads, both had an almost noble aquilinity of feature. The Wind in the rose-bush and other stories of the supernatural
  • He was thirty, but looked fifty, with pale skin, hopeless eyes and an emaciated body, covered in sores.
  • Their ragged shifts and kirtles, soaked through with the drizzling rain, hung dankly on their emaciated forms.
  • And reports that his platelet count is low, when considered with this picture in which he looks jaundiced, his face emaciated, but his belly bulging - all suggest liver failure.
  • The small black and tan cross-bred dog had been left to starve and was so emaciated he was close to death.
  • It's easy to dismiss Peake's visual output as indulgent gothic fantasy; and indeed his images set the tone for so many subsequent cliches of the genre: the emaciated pallor of his somnambulistic protagonists, the obsessive detailing and filigree patterning of his graphic mannerisms, the too easy reliance on grotesque distortions. This week's new exhibitions
  • In all diseases it is better that the umbilical and hypogastric regions preserve their fullness; and it is a bad sign when they are very slender and emaciated; in the latter case it is dangerous to administer purgatives. Aphorisms
  • Once, after inveigling my way, wide-eyed, into the great man's company, I asked him how a man who was as emaciated as he was found the energy to fight as he did.
  • He told his driver to stop outside a broken-down shack, where an emaciated woman and two young men sat on a porch surrounded by household debris.
  • There were pictures of emaciated children on the cover of the magazine.
  • Men lust after her because she looks like a sexy woman, not an emaciated child.
  • However, the writing is hectoringly didactic and dramatically emaciated. Times, Sunday Times
  • A long illness had emaciated my father.
  • Even here I shall emaciate my body by penances, engaged in serving the feet of the king and of these my mothers. ' The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 4 Books 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18
  • I keep picturing their skinny, emaciated frames - did I guess they were addicts?
  • For the true face of catwalk evil, look instead to the girl models, some so emaciated they made Samantha Cameron blench in shock. If tokenism is what it takes to get on, so be it | Barbara Ellen
  • The adult male lion, described as emaciated and showing other signs of starvation, was later killed by wildlife officials after it attacked a dog brought in to track it. KETV.com - Local News
  • Already emaciated, he would take only occasional bites of food and seemed to shake violently when he drank fluids.
  • Day, fasts and watches, till he emaciates his Body, to fatten his purse and increase his coffers. John Adams diary 1, 18 November 1755 - 29 August 1756
  • 'An emaciated patriarch in a suit of white drill, a solah topi with a green-lined rim on a head trembling with age, joined us after crossing the street in a trotting shuffle, and stood propped with both hands on the handle of an umbrella. Lord Jim
  • Ever see a raw fooder talk about how great they feel and how much energy they have in spite of looking emaciated and anoretic? Last gasp of the dark ages of nutrition | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D.
  • Those who accompanied the Southern army on this arduous march will recall the dismayed expression of the emaciated faces at this unlooked-for calamity; and no face wore a heavier shadow than that of General Lee. A Life of Gen Robert E Lee
  • Grubby politicians kiss babies; but these two cynical opportunists have chosen to exploit emaciated infants with distended bellies as the visual soundbite for 2005.
  • The small black and tan cross-bred dog had been left to starve and was so emaciated he was close to death.
  • We slide straight from the horror of emaciated refugees to a bright and sparkly commercial for toothpaste.
  • I would argue that much of the drive to emaciate supermodels is part of an attempt to make them appear younger, pre-pubescent. "Sending people to prison for five or 10 or 15 years for looking at pictures is killing an ant with a sledgehammer."
  • Thrips feed by sucking the juice out of the leaves and flowers of plants, like vegan mosquitoes, and cause white emaciated damage (see this illustration of gladiolus thrips, by USDA illustrator Art Cushman). Dave Snyder: Uncommon Ground Rooftop Farm Update: Week 5
  • To excuse all production defects on the ground that they were undiscoverable would be to emaciate the potential of the Directive.
  • She was thin, so nearly every bone protruded beneath translucent white skin and emaciated muscles.
  • [FOOTNOTE 87: spavined crowbait -- a lame, emaciated horse (from spavin, an inflammation of the tarsal or ankle joint of a horse, causing lameness, and an appearance that causes carrion birds to think a meal is in the offing)] "A very sad --" began Judge Menefee, but his remark was curtailed by a higher authority. Heart of the West [Annotated]
  • But this time it was a little girl - a painfully thin little girl with huge, staring eyes and emaciated limbs and body.
  • The heart of childhood, so divine for me", is but typical of a being so dragged, and emaciate with the tortures of the body, in earth places where no soul like his could ever be at home. Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets
  • The dog was described as "emaciated, but alive" after it had been adrift since the March 11 disaster. CBC | Top Stories News
  • So I entered and found myself in a chamber strewn with sweet-scented herbs and with a curtain drawn across one corner, from behind which came a sound of groaning and grame, weak as from an emaciated frame. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
  • And of course the story takes place in an unseasonable heatwave, so they get down to Horseshoe Bend and Carl is sweating, emaciated, very unwell, and on top of all of that, this October happens to be a hot one.
  • The family doctor may choose to manage patients who are well motivated and not severely emaciated.
  • An emaciated, rake of a lackey with crowns on his lapels kept ushering supplicants and victims into the Secretary's panelled office.
  • An emaciated cat quickly dropped from the ladder, watched something under vanilla jar, kept yelling out rudely, but Xiamen zoological garden people may not inquire what happened.
  • Some of them were pale and emaciated, and one that was palest and most worn went by with drooping head and hands that inlaced her rosary. A Son of Hagar A Romance of Our Time
  • In more than 80 cases now, she has seen thalidomide stop the wasting process that emaciates TB and AIDS sufferers alike. A 'Bad' Drug May Turn Out To Do Good
  • By CAROLE CLOUDWALKER Staff writer A Colorado man camping with his family at Big Game Campground in Shoshone Forest was attacked by an emaciated male mountain lion on Sunday evening, July 12. This should probably be under message board but here is a mountain lion attack which is rather unusual in several respects even
  • Her cheeks sunk deep inside, and she appeared thin and emaciated.
  • He saw himself incredibly emaciated, covered in filth, his cheeks drawn and his own eyes looked back at him from hollow sockets colored with despair, pleading for help.
  • Looking at her emaciated body, it was a miracle that she had given birth to him in the first place.
  • The chief personage in it was a lady reclining at full length on a long couch, and being dragged along, looking the picture of misery, emaciated to the last degree, her head drawn back almost in a state of opisthotonos, her hands and arms clenched and contracted, her eyes fixed and staring at the sky. Fat and Blood An Essay on the Treatment of Certain Forms of Neurasthenia and Hysteria
  • For an industry that thrives on an if-it-bleeds-it-leads attitude, you have to wonder how jaded this industry is to allow someone to emaciate themselves right in public; right in front of them. Joe The Nerd Ferraro: And No One Listened
  • At first Anna -- strong and well-nourished by the standards of wartime -- had instinctively tried to help some emaciated creature. IN LOVE AND WAR
  • A person with strong digestive organs has a yellowish complexion with luster and a person with a disease of the digestive organs has a sallow complexion and is emaciated, fatigued or has a diseased color that is hard to describe with words.
  • At this Claude, stupefied, fairly stared at the emaciated Mathilde, and then at the huge vintaging woman. His Masterpiece
  • The clerk is an emaciated and jaundiced gentleman to whom I assign a tentative diagnosis of pancreatic cancer.
  • On the 1-to-9 scale, 1 is described as emaciated, 5 is ideal and 9 is grossly obese. The Sheboygan Press Latest Headlines
  • The lues venerea can only be said to be incurable when the disease is got to that deplorable point by neglect, that the emaciated and hectic state of the patient's constitution forbids the use of mercury.
  • One of the photographs in the exhibit was a modern-day pieta, with a hospital nurse holding in her lap an emaciated and nearly-naked patient who had died of HIV/AIDS. Rev. Patrick S. Cheng, Ph.D.: Art, Censorship, and the Scandal of the Cross
  • She emaciated during the chemotherapy
  • The baldhead, silly beard and naked torso would have been edgy enough to get front-page attention, why add to it an emaciated frame? Rosalyn Hoffman: Bald, Bewhiskered, or Vajazzled - Who Cares? Just Be Healthy
  • Vain men, whom hunger pinches, cold benumbs, and poverty emaciates. Folk-Lore and Legends: North American Indian
  • On general examination, Gollum is a pale, emaciated hobbit, with scanty hair and big eyes: ‘A skulking creature with an ill-favoured look.’
  • Lincoln checked her watch and nodded as an emaciated gray bus spluttered dead; pausing on its way to the ring of featureless, achromatic roads which led to the main structure of South Street ferry port.
  • Yet he recalled the emaciated face and form, the cough, the trailing step, Miss Foster's anxiety, some comments overheard in the village. Eleanor
  • Three effects are ascribed to Babylonian broth (which was made of moldy bread, sour milk, and salt): -- It retards the action of the heart, it affects the eyesight, and emaciates the body. Hebraic Literature; Translations from the Talmud, Midrashim and Kabbala
  • Bessie's emaciated appearance wasn't the only pitiful aspect of her plight. OUT OF THE ASHES
  • A film clip shows emaciated panda bodies like sad beanbag chairs littering the forest floor. HOMELAND AND OTHER STORIES
  • The millionaire bookie gladly agreed to take the neglected animal into his private sanctuary after it was found emaciated and abandoned.
  • The gaunt faces beneath closely cropped heads and the young faces on emaciated bodies had began to assume form and substance.
  • Languishing in the corner of the lorry, the emaciated carthorse was ‘a very, very sorry sight’ said Tove.
  • His bountiful and generous nature could profit by a spell of training that would emaciate a poorer stock. Robert Louis Stevenson
  • He looked emaciated, eating only an apple and a latte each day to survive.
  • The trio of ESPN commentators are concerned that Novak Djokovic is looking "emaciated" and that Roger Federer's arms look "like a ten-year-old boy's. The Scene in Flushing
  • Ah del buque!" he screamed out, holding up, as if to signal with it, one of his emaciated hands, the bony fingers of which looked like those of a skeleton. Crown and Anchor Under the Pen'ant
  • The animal was also emaciated but its main problem was mange, leaving much of its body hairless and covered in lesions, Ms Shields said.
  • Looking at his weight to see if he's malnourished or emaciated in any way.
  • He narrowly escaped execution during the Second World War and had not run in six years when he headed off to Boston, an emaciated stick of a man.
  • And he struck his breast with his emaciated fist.
  • Whether or not he might have succeeded is doubtful, when one night, as the Princess slept on her couch she dreamed that Saint George appeared, not, as she had seen him, in shining armour, with his burgonet of glittering steel, and crimson plume of spangled feathers, but in overworn and simple attire, with pale countenance and emaciated form; and thus he spoke: -- The Seven Champions of Christendom
  • Already emaciated, he would take only occasional bites of food and seemed to shake violently when he drank fluids.
  • I could feel myself dying - I felt my life ebbing away," she said, recalling her emaciated body. SFGate: Top News Stories
  • These children tend to be underweight and emaciated, with decreased muscle tone.
  • On general examination, Gollum is a pale, emaciated hobbit, with scanty hair and big eyes: ‘A skulking creature with an ill-favoured look.’
  • Both looked "sickly, pale, and emaciated, from a long course of intemperance," despite respectable attire and some signs of formal education.
  • Findings of the physical examination on admission revealed an emaciated, deeply jaundiced man, with orthostatic hypotension and marked dyspnea.
  • ‘An emaciated patriarch in a suit of white drill, a solah topi with a green-lined rim on a head trembling with age, joined us after crossing the street in a trotting shuffle, and stood propped with both hands on the handle of an umbrella. Lord Jim
  • Baby Gliss never had a chance _ born infected with the AIDS virus, abandoned by his mother, now wracked by disease that emaciates his face and makes him wheeze for breath. ANC Daily News Briefing
  • I would argue that much of the drive to emaciate supermodels is part of an attempt to make them appear younger, pre-pubescent. "Sending people to prison for five or 10 or 15 years for looking at pictures is killing an ant with a sledgehammer."
  • The animals were starving, emaciated, had worms and lice and two were in such a bad state they were days from death.
  • The treatment emaciated him
  • His big and dropsical head, disproportionate to his emaciated body, leans against his mother's shoulder, his eyes blinking weakly.
  • [1] But within a few days, apparently, of this date treatment employed on the advice of Dr Joshua Ward, so weakened a body already 'enervate' and emaciated, that at first the patient “was thought to be falling into the agonies of death.” Henry Fielding A Memoir
  • So after a week of that, we could look pretty darn emaciated and bedraggled.
  • The patient emaciates because of the lack of ability to keep food long enough to receive any benefits therefrom. The Mother and Her Child
  • The man was dying, emaciated and had a high fever when the first injection of their scant supply of penicillin was given.
  • A film clip shows emaciated panda bodies like sad beanbag chairs littering the forest floor. HOMELAND AND OTHER STORIES
  • Looking round, he saw Polikarpos solemn-faced, transported; his cousin Kostas, General Vouros, even the emaciated man, were the same. COUP D'ETAT
  • I was only 5 when I first saw it and for years just couldn't comprehend that the emaciated distressed skeletons shown were actually people.
  • The International Committee of the Red Cross reported finding what it called shocking scenes on Wednesday, including four emaciated children next to the bodies of their dead mothers. OpEdNews - Quicklink: U.N. and Red Cross Add to Outcry on Gaza War
  • Of course, because the taxpayer has no choice but to cough up, this gangrenous tumescence keeps bulging as the services provided become more emaciated and anaemic. Five Go Camping In Hampshire « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
  • The gaunt faces beneath closely cropped heads and the young faces on emaciated bodies had began to assume form and substance.
  • A young boy without a shirt, showing his emaciated body, propels himself across the compartment floor.
  • Truly I will, without food and without the least love of life, emaciate my limbs, like a she-snake (hibernating) within a Tala tree. The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 1 Books 1, 2 and 3
  • Well, we're being told by these two sources again, one of them who had actually seen the body in the hospital room after Michael Jackson had passed away, and it was described as emaciated, completely emaciated. CNN Transcript Jul 8, 2009
  • Months later their drawn faces and emaciated bodies bear testimony to the ravages of heroin addiction.
  • In The Machinist he is as emaciated as a hunger striker.
  • This makes her a far healthier role model than the emaciated models currently making their bony way down the world's catwalks.
  • A boat was sent after the helicopter ran low on fuel, and rescuers were able to catch the dog, who was described as "emaciated but alive. Dog rescued 3 weeks after being washed out to sea by tsunami
  • He told his driver to stop outside a broken-down shack, where an emaciated woman and two young men sat on a porch surrounded by household debris.
  • But social workers who examined the woman said that although weak and emaciated, she showed no signs of mental illness.
  • The soldiers gave them chocolates and bananas, but their emaciated bodies were too weak from malnutrition to tolerate such rich food.
  • Her face was angular, emaciated - the cheekbones standing out and the eyes sunken in, with no healthy rose to the skin.
  • I live in a culture that evaluates my every curve, wrinkle, and hair on my head; the size of my lips; the droop of the skin under my upper arms; the breadth of my thighs and hips; the ampleness of my breasts; literally every one of my physical attributes against an emaciated, youth-obsessed, plastic-surgery-altered, impossible standard of beauty. Angela Bonavoglia: Of Bare Breasts and Burkas
  • Patients were terribly emaciated and gave off a nauseating odour which almost halted me at the first door.
  • Ward, so weakened a body already 'enervate' and emaciated, that at first the patient "was thought to be falling into the agonies of death. Henry Fielding: a Memoir
  • The gaunt faces beneath closely cropped heads and the young faces on emaciated bodies had began to assume form and substance.
  • Also known as heroin chic, the skinny models of these days look emaciated because they are. The Fashion Industry: A New Type of Monster « Colleen Anderson
  • Every time I pick up a magazine, only to be assailed by the emaciated form of another 'twiglet' celebrity, I feel not only profoundly sad, but also overwhelmingly disturbed. That's Fit
  • Consequently, as a prominent symptom, the body wastes and emaciates. Nature Cure
  • We might show how reason is here overpowered and dethroned; how the remonstrances of virtue, already decayed and emaciated, become vain and futile; how man, bent upon sensual gratification, rushes on, brutifies himself, inflames his passions but the more, An Address to the People of North Carolina, on the Evils of Slavery. By The Friends of Liberty and Equality
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  • Susie, as she has been named, was found in an emaciated state in a garden in Turton Road, Tottington, next to the Pets in Need animal shelter.
  • My cousin welcomed me with warm affection; yet tears were in her eyes, as she beheld my emaciated frame and feverish cheeks. Chapter 5
  • An emaciated cat dropped from the ladder, watched something under vanilla jar, kept yelling out rudely, but Xiamen zoological garden people may not question what happened.
  • The hawk was captured weighing 424 grams and was called "emaciated" by conservancy Vice President Linda Moore. Cooper's hawk trapped in Library of Congress is captured
  • Those animals have generally very short lifespans and multiple health problems - they're frequently sick, frostbitten and emaciated.
  • In the flush of his success, the only thought he spared for the unlucky Stu Trask was a reflection on the incongruity of the image of the dour and homely Trask—sad-eyed, stooped, balding, and emaciated but for a small paunch—and his fateful weakness. O: A Presidential Novel
  • Emaciated horses of mixed light breeds (8 mares, 5 geldings, and 1 stallion) and unknown histories were purchased in Mexicali, Mexico or Albuquerque, New Mexico by a commercial buyer.
  • And he struck his breast with his emaciated fist.
  • Emaciated patients suffering from chronic sprue can also take buttermilk preferably before noon.
  • Of a thin, emaciated child it is said, "His mother _clems_ him. Notes and Queries, Number 194, July 16, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc
  • Some cattle became horrifically emaciated or developed raw wounds.
  • From her wasted and emaciated appearance, we may fairly infer, she also fell a martyr to this destructive and poisonous liquid.
  • To cause to become lean, usually by starvation; emaciate.
  • If this best of men, Jaya, my sire, does not rise up, I shall emaciate my own body, sitting on the field of battle. The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 4 Books 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18
  • Refugees fleeing Somalia overcrowd the Dadaab camp in Eastern Kenya and images of emaciated children stir media attention. Don Golden: Turkana: Looking Into the Face of Starvation
  • Sometimes the poor creature will let their children literally emaciate in order to fund their habits, whilst all the while they know what they are doing but so damage is their capacity to reason that their entire physiological organism seizes to function adequately. On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
  • I detected something comminatory in his yellow, emaciated countenance, but I believe now he was simply startled by my youth. The Arrow of Gold
  • Emaciated as a result of losing about 60 pounds via a calorie-depleted diet, he barely looks like his usual robust self.
  • He was thirty, but looked fifty, with pale skin, hopeless eyes and an emaciated body, covered in sores.
  • From her wasted and emaciated appearance, we may fairly infer, she also fell a martyr to this destructive and poisonous liquid.
  • In emaciated animals, serous atrophy occurs at these depot sites and in the bone marrow cavity.
  • An emaciated John Carradine plays a Dracula who travels West seeking to suck the blood of innocent frontierswomen.
  • His words echoed in the emptiness of his mind as his frail, emaciated body began to convulse and was racked by involuntary spasms.
  • Through the lens of history the emaciated prisoners look barely capable of smiling, but had the Nazi narrative prevailed, the same shot might now suggest weathered pioneers determined to make a life under hardscrabble conditions.

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