Example sentences for: emaciated

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

  • President Clinton accused the fashion industry of glamorizing heroin . After reading about a photographer who died of a heroin overdose after selling pictures of emaciated, vacant-eyed models, Clinton argued that such images have encouraged young people to take up the habit.

  • The cover of Angry Johnny and the Killbillies' album, Hankenstein , shows Hank Williams drawn like Frankenstein's monster; the cover of a Bloodshot alternative-country anthology called Hell-Bent parodies a famous photo of a grimacing, emaciated Williams in an Alabama jail.

  • For the first time in his public life, he has forced himself to speak openly about the horrible war wound that turned a strapping, athletic youth into an emaciated, bed-ridden hospital patient.

  • Maybe it's been a while since Bode has partied till 4 a.m., but to "Pundit Central" 's eyes the models look like nothing more sinister than extremely tired and slender party trash, not emaciated junkies.

  • The episode itself sounds iffy--Fish launches a wrongful-termination suit on behalf of a major client who's been fired for claiming to have seen a unicorn--but there's a kind of perverse thrill in seeing what abject humiliation will befall the show's emaciated heroine each week.


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