Example Sentences

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The UK's advertising watchdog says it has banned ads using models who appear unhealthily underweight rather than overweight due to society's aspiration towards thinness.

From BBC • Mar. 14, 2025

“I’m not unhealthily overweight, but I gained 20 pounds over the pandemic that I would love to shed.”

From Washington Post • Apr. 24, 2023

These films are not merely about the band, but about their audience and what the audience projected, sometimes unhealthily, upon them.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 7, 2022

"So I think our focus unhealthily on this one individual comes at the price of systems and dynamics that have been in place long before this cat ever learned how to surf those waves."

From Fox News • Oct. 18, 2021

His face was white and had an unusual sheen, and the eyes were unhealthily radiant.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan