anaemic

How to use anaemic in a sentence

• Thin, anaemic patients, contrary to what might be expected, usually recover and often their recovery is permanent.

  Essays In Pastoral Medicine | Austin Malley

• Your colour is watery blue, anaemic, thin, so that the cadaverous yellow of the canvas shines through.

  Creditors; Pariah | August Strindberg

• If I cannot credit him with complete success it is because the subsidiary tale of love which he gives us is really too anaemic.

  Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 156, May 21, 1919. | Various

• The tribes of New Guinea, rendered anaemic by hunger, dream of eating unlimited sago throughout eternity.

  Decadence and Other Essays on the Culture of Ideas | Remy de Gourmont

• The patients are pale, wasted and anaemic, and the abdomen may be enormously enlarged.

  Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 17, Slice 2 | Various