starvation

Example Sentences

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Almost dead through starvation over that long, cold winter, she somehow stayed alive long enough to get me and the boys to the end of the war before she joined her husband.

From Literature

Unless ocean temperatures return to more tolerable levels, bleached corals are unable to recover and eventually die of starvation.

From Barron's

Crops needed to stave off starvation have been decimated.

From The Wall Street Journal

Shipper survived two concentration camps, including Auschwitz-Birkenau in occupied Poland, a death march, and the Lodz ghetto - a Jewish ghetto established by the Nazis which was plagued by disease, starvation and forced labour.

From BBC

“Once the Forest Service got involved, they had more than just a starvation issue,” she said.

From Los Angeles Times