Example sentences for: starve

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

  • 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.

  • But trying to starve the terrorists of money is like trying to catch one kind of fish by draining the ocean.

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

  • 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.

  • 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 ).


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