Example sentences for: starve

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

  • They didn’t starve, but they didn’t thrive, either.

  • “They'll starve if they have to rely on water-column food distributions, and that's where the sea ice comes in,” says Atkinson.

  • The hard-core ones spin their own clothes, subsist on hardtack and salt pork, speak in 19 th -century dialect, and starve themselves in order to attain the gaunt look of Confederate troops.

  • said, "One mouth can eat, two mouths can share, four mouths will sometimes go hungry, and eight mouths starve."

  • Critics of government welfare programs often ridicule the notion that people would starve in the streets or die of untreated diseases without AFDC, food stamps, Medicaid, etc.


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