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Example sentences for: famine

How can you use “famine” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

The alternative is drought, famine, and ultimately war over the entire area.
Its almost exclusively agricultural economy suffered much more than the north from plague and famine.
The Great Famine struck in 1845 with a blight on the staple food of the poor, the potato.
Maren shows how this previously underreported history set the stage for the 1992 famine and the subsequent ill-fated American military intervention.
Cook implies that--at the height of Stalin's terror, and years after a planned Ukrainian famine that was arguably a genocide--those who disagreed with Eleanor and Esther Lape's quest for diplomatic recognition of the Soviet Union were rustic lunkheads to a man.