more starved

The schools, the city departments and the press that holds them to account get more starved for funds.

I was both more tired but also more starved for grown-up conversation.

Dr. Conley’s responses were like the Subtraction Stew in “The Phantom Tollbooth”: The more helpings he served, the more starved we were for answers.

The Patriots getting to the Super Bowl hasn’t generated the same kind of civic buzz that you see in places like Philly or Chicago that are a little more starved for a title.

That sparked an even bigger famine, during which millions more starved to death.