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Example sentences for: famine

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The year is 1964 and all seems well, notwithstanding the recent Great Famine, perhaps the most severe in human history and almost entirely Mao's fault.
All too frequently a cycle of drought, famine, and plague would decimate the population.
To argue, as Foer does--that the notion that the British government bears a substantial measure of responsibility for the humanitarian crisis of the famine is merely an Irish "folk tradition"--is as absurd as arguing that the blight itself was introduced deliberately in a genocidal conspiracy.
As in the case of slavery and the Holocaust, alongside which the famine will be taught, there must be a culprit.
Hundreds of thousands more starved during a famine caused by demented Chinese agricultural policy.