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Example sentences for "anaemic"

Lexicographically close words:
anachronistic; anaconda; anacrusis; anadromous; anaemia; anaerobic; anaesthesia; anaesthetic; anaesthetics; anagram
  1. Both wore scant growths of beard and both looked considerably changed, though Pavel was still slim and boyish of figure and Elkin's face as anaemic and chalk-coloured as it had been four years ago.

  2. This school was later set apart for children in incipient cases of tuberculosis and classes for anaemic children were organized in 13 regular schools.

  3. Overheating and overcrowding, hastily eaten and improper food, are all causes of the weakness and anaemic condition so perceptible among shop and factory workers, these being divided into many classes.

  4. An exception must be made, however, in certain cases of anaemic and delicate persons.

  5. Strawberries= contain phosphorus and iron, and are therefore especially desirable for mental workers and anaemic invalids.

  6. It is useful for weak, anaemic and delicate persons; it produces flesh, is soothing in bronchial cases, and laxative.

  7. Spinach= contains a considerable quantity of iron in a readily assimilable form, and is, therefore, good for anaemic persons.

  8. A most excellent recipe for invalids and anaemic patients is prescribed by Dr.

  9. Anaemic children and those who show a tubercular tendency are treated in open air schools.

  10. So many fantastic trades were carried on here, that it was natural to endow the girls behind the counters with a more romantic life than that of ordinary and anaemic shop-assistants.

  11. But it was only gaslight playing and fluttering over the figure of anaemic Annie taking hairpin after hairpin from her hair.

  12. If she were in any way anaemic I could understand it, but she is not.

  13. She has lost that anaemic look which she had.

  14. When he paints ancient sibyls, they are touched at once by the unearthly asceticism of the Middle Ages seeking refuge from the world, and the melancholy, anaemic lassitude of the close of the nineteenth century.

  15. What could be more effective in treating the anaemic condition of wounded and crippled boys, and in treating the same condition in women industrial workers, than haemoglobin eggs?

  16. Anaemic people commonly have no wish for meat.

  17. Therefore, the food of an anaemic person should consist mainly of articles of diet which grow above the surface, such as green vegetables, fresh greens, fruit, berries.

  18. The higher temperature is used in the treatment of infants, nervous and anaemic persons.

  19. The barman leant his fat red arms on the counter and talked of horses with an anaemic cabman, while a black-bearded man in grey snapped up biscuit and cheese, drank Burton, and conversed in American with a policeman off duty.

  20. Don't you be in too much hurry about that door," said the anaemic cabman, anxiously.

  21. The victims from hour to hour become more anaemic in appearance through increasing engorgement of the abdominal veins.

  22. It seemed to outrage reason to suppose that an anaemic little clerk could have murdered a helpless old man simply out of revenge for having lost his place.

  23. Jim supposed sarcastically that the only proper candidate would have been an absinthe-drinking scribbler of anaemic little poems.

  24. The old experienced physician, seeing the yellowish waxy look which is common in anaemic patients, considers it a "bilious" case, and is for giving a rousing emetic.

  25. As the Catholicism of Schlegel was an anaemic system, so the painters, too, deprived their figures of blood and being in order to leave them only the abstract beauty of line.

  26. In their anaemic colour his pictures have the effect of a song of high, fine-drawn, and tremulous violin tones, at once dulcet and painful.

  27. So far he has been as clay in the hands of his beloved wife, but the anaemic ladies and the communion table are the last drop that causes his cup to overflow.

  28. It was composed mainly of anaemic youths smoking cigarettes.

  29. In fact, she was downright unkind to the anaemic sample, likening her to knuckle of veal.

  30. An anaemic waiter in a shirt some four days old, with grease-spots on his garments and a crumpled napkin on his arm, stood leaning an elbow amongst doubtful fruits, and reading an Italian journal.

  31. They who were themselves in the full bloom of romanticism did not detect the anaemic romantic who had lost his footing on firm ground.

  32. Such a plant is the civilised man made by artificial bleaching useful for an anaemic society, but, as an individual, wretched and unhealthy.

  33. Don't think my heart is too anaemic to--to care for you, and that I am trying to shelter myself behind talk of a life's mission.

  34. On the other hand, the doctors and club workers interviewed were confident that the long hours worked were increasing the proportion of anaemic girls.

  35. Witnesses from girls' clubs and evening classes often state that the clothing trade is responsible for a higher proportion of anaemic girls than any other industry.

  36. Anaemic men dropped inaudible questions to robust females, and ethereal-looking debutantes screamed replies to elderly Conservatives.

  37. And, as I gazed the other day at this picture hanging in the shabby suburban parlour, I could only contrast him with his anaemic descendants who possessed the likeness.

  38. I was forthwith provided with an apron, and introduced to the slim and anaemic but cheerful Johnny Hedges, the shipping clerk, hard at work in the alley.


  39. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "anaemic" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.