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Example sentences for: famine

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Hundreds of thousands more starved during a famine caused by demented Chinese agricultural policy.
Below Grassmarket is Cowgate, known for generations as the Irish Quarter because many families came here to escape the potato famine in their own country.
Without access to foreign markets, there was no way to counter the rash of catastrophes — plague, drought, floods, and famine — at the end of the 18th century.
Book -- Hungry Ghosts: Mao's Secret Famine , by Jasper Becker;
At the start of the famine in 1845, nearly 9 million people lived in Ireland.