Example sentences for: anorexic

How can you use “anorexic” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Some of his earliest still lifes, dating from 1916 to 1918, look like little parables of deprivation: three anorexic herrings on a plate with two forks (why two?)

  • anorexic a vegetarian who doesn't eat vegetables.

  • She fits a standard anorexic profile: overachieving daughter from a well-off family, with a distant father and a mother whose ambitions (intellectual and sexual) have left Ruth feeling overshadowed and neglected.

  • Who are these anorexic figures with their stoned expressions and "over-shampooed hair" (as Sir John Pope-Hennessy once quipped)?

  • The hypophagia of diet-induced obesity may be related to the modestly elevated hypothalamic POMC, whose product alpha-MSH is a known anorexic agent [ 20 29 ] . In turn, the induction of hypothalamic POMC by the high-fat diet might have been due in part to the elevation of leptin in diet-induced obese mice (Table I).


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