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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:

A short piece says there is a "child famine" in the Great Plains: North Dakota, South Dakota, Kansas, Nebraska, and Wyoming are not producing enough children to sustain their small towns.
Similar bills are pending in other states, and a bill pending in Congress would require the Department of Education to include the potato famine in all the model curricula it concocts.
It had long been suspected that the famine was caused by the Ib strain of
These arguments draw on an interpretation of the famine that has flourished since the event itself.
His understanding of the famine and the British government's role in it--at least as demonstrated in this piece--is shallow, at best.