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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:

At the start of the famine in 1845, nearly 9 million people lived in Ireland.
George Pataki, starting next fall, high school students in his state will be legally required to study the Irish potato famine.
Its almost exclusively agricultural economy suffered much more than the north from plague and famine.
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.
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.