starved to death
Example Sentences
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Starvation in Gaza today summons up my grandmother’s stories of how her family starved to death in the Warsaw ghetto.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 15, 2025
‘It starved to death before it ever saw the light of day.’
From Salon • Oct. 15, 2024
More than 200 people have starved to death since July in Edaga Arbi town, in Ethiopia's drought-hit and war-scarred Tigray region, local authorities say.
From BBC • Jan. 16, 2024
Zelenskiy pointed out that the attack had come in the early hours of the day when Ukrainians commemorate their worst national tragedy -- the 1932-33 Holodomor famine in which several million people starved to death.
From Reuters • Nov. 25, 2023
“Gardens—where we grow the crops. Water’s pumped in through pipes in the ground—always has been, or we’d have starved to death a long time ago. Never rains here. Never.”
From "The Maze Runner" by James Dashner
