Words similar to starve

Example sentences for: starve

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

But trying to starve the terrorists of money is like trying to catch one kind of fish by draining the ocean.
Notice how Rowling structures the books in strict parallel centered around the school: First we get a few chapters of Harry at home with his awful muggle relatives, who lock him in the closet, starve him, and cower at the thought that he might perform magic (his frustration at not being allowed to is part of the amusement of this section).
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 ).