famish

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

The President pondered, smiled, said: "Well, they can't famish on that."

From Time Magazine Archive

Sympathy cannot feast in a palace while the poor famish.

From The Battle of Principles A Study of the Heroism and Eloquence of the Anti-Slavery Conflict by Hillis, Newell Dwight

It never rains out of season, and were it not for the heavy night dews, the very birds would famish.

From Los Gringos Or, An Inside View of Mexico and California, with Wanderings in Peru, Chili, and Polynesia by Wise, H. A. (Henry Augustus)

The last sounds which rang in my ears were the voices of the hungry gnomes, calling out, "Give us our victim; we famish."

From Tales of the Wonder Club Volume I by Halidom, M. Y.

Directly there came by a child, With toiling step, and vision wild, "Father," said she, with hunger dread, "We famish for the want of bread."

From Incidents of the War: Humorous, Pathetic, and Descriptive by Burnett, Alf