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starving
adjective as in deprived
Example Sentences
And by 1918 much of Central and Eastern Europe was starving and destitute.
Tens of thousands of civilians still live in the city, starving, with limited food and water.
The actor transformed from a sensual Marilyn Monroe to a whimsical Salvador Dali to a starving migrant mother, seamlessly.
It is Ma who suggests to Rose of Sharon that she suckle a starving man.
In some countries getting arrested means starving half to death, or making it the whole way there.
That poor, pretty creature, starving, in her charming pink dress and hat of roses.
It was the starving sense of loneliness, the aching sense of loss, the yearning and the vain desire that made it seem so long.
In every colony the "starving time," even if it had ever existed, was now no more than an ancient tradition.
Marry, let an honest man lack their assistance, and starving stares him in the face, for want of a recommendation.
This will be the more necessary as the process of starving out the Turks to the south must take time.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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