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Example sentences for "emaciate"

Lexicographically close words:
elvan; elves; elvish; elytra; emaciated; emaciation; emalangeni; eman; emanate
  1. He retired a fugitive with eight thousand men in his train, ragged, emaciate and mutilated.

  2. Famine strode through all the streets, covering the pavements with the emaciate corpses of the dead.

  3. Sickness diminished the ranks, and emaciate men, haggard and way-worn, tottered painfully along the rugged ways.

  4. The emaciate mother was unable to afford sustenance to her infant.

  5. He dressed with the utmost care; painted his wrinkled brow and emaciate cheeks, and resorted to all the appliances of art to maintain the aspect of youth and vigor.

  6. Back to his lonely cave The old man passed; and, wrapped in thoughts of heaven, Lifted in prayer his clasped emaciate hands; 105 Then on his bed of rushes in the cave Lay down to rest till dawn.

  7. After a month of toil and suffering, ragged and emaciate he at midnight reached the settlement.

  8. Even the Indian could perceive, from his feeble voice and emaciate steps, that he was not far from the grave.

  9. For thirty years, clothed in sackcloth, she mourned and prayed, till the midnight tollings of the convent bell consigned her emaciate frame to the tomb.

  10. The gray-haired king, emaciate with remorse and physical suffering, reclined upon the regal bed, whose velvet hangings were looped back with heavy tassels and ropes of gold.

  11. So the hermits, ascetics, monks, and friars emaciate their bodies, and the religious fanatics torture their persons in vain).


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