without food
Example Sentences
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Instead, the body seemed to enter a very different biological state after about three days without food.
From Science Daily • May 17, 2026
He said they were also held for about eight hours without food or water before being escorted onto a plane back to the UK.
From BBC • Apr. 2, 2026
"During the journey, the passengers lost their bearings and remained at sea for six days without food or water," the coastguard stated.
From Barron's • Mar. 28, 2026
When I explained this to a Muslim friend, he replied that it “kinda sounds like diet Ramadan”—which demands that Muslims go without food or drink from sunup to sundown.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 19, 2026
He gave the rice cake to a dog and remained without food.
From "Siddhartha" by Hermann Hesse
