Example sentences for: starve

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

  • At best, it tells hitherto untold tales about women in the ghettoes and death-camps, forcing us to ponder such imponderables as: When a baby is born in Auschwitz, is it crueller to let him starve or to feed him sugar water and prolong his death?

  • With few exceptions, they appear to be phrases ( bridging loan, wide open, Hyde Park railings ), adages or proverbs ( Don't be after breaking your shin on a stool that is not in your way, When the wheat lies long in bed, it rises with a heavy head, The water that comes from the same spring cannot be both fresh and salt, Better feed five drones than starve one bee ), and, occasionally, individual words ( beeswax business, grape-vine, stagnant ).

  • “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 general public sees attacks on terrorist finance as a way to "starve the terrorists of money."

  • Kevorkian's lawyer's spin: The death was a victimless crime, the verdict is an injustice, the sentence was too harsh, and Kevorkian will starve himself to death in prison.


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