starvation

Example Sentences

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We’ve seen harrowing pictures of mass starvation and malnutrition in Africa caused by a widespread food deficit.

From The Wall Street Journal

Venetian sources state that these imports helped prevent mass starvation.

From Science Daily

To avoid starvation, Italian city states traded with grain producers around the Black Sea, unwittingly enabling the deadly bacterium to gain a foothold in Europe.

From BBC

With a sudden end to foreign exchange earnings, Venezuelan GDP went into the kind of free fall you rarely see outside war, setting off a humanitarian crisis that brought millions to the brink of starvation.

From The Wall Street Journal

Some may have already died from starvation, Arab officials say, as food supplies have dwindled.

From The Wall Street Journal