unfed

Example Sentences

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“Her voice slips through our ribs, like a ghost, attracted by our hunger, by the space made for her in our shrunken, unfed bellies,” she writes of June.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 7, 2022

“I would favor a license for cats, which would greatly diminish the number of unfed alley cats that must hunt for their living,” she once said.

From Washington Post • May 25, 2022

When I met Fillinger on a Monday morning, she was jet-lagged and unfed in a plum jumpsuit and pale purple face mask, a look she described as “chic mechanic.”

From New York Times • Apr. 22, 2022

Wednesday I sat with Holtzman, unfed, through long meetings about fundraising for the Syria Trust.

From Newsweek • Jul. 30, 2012

When Mr. Jones got back he immediately went to sleep on the drawing-room sofa with the Neivs of the World over his face, so that when evening came, the animals were still unfed.

From "Animal Farm: A Fairy Story" by George Orwell