starve
Example Sentences
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“I bought this for you. You’d better eat it quick before my starving friends arrive.”
From Literature
The book’s opening lines capture his zero-sum Malthusian thinking: “The battle to feed all of humanity is over. In the 1970s hundreds of millions of people will starve to death.”
We built up the fire and, naturally starved, thought we’d try one piece each of Tansy’s fried chicken.
From Literature
“That is your body not wanting you to starve to death.”
The blockade has also starved Cuba's power plants and farms of fuel and brought daily life to a near standstill.
From Barron's
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
