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Example sentences for: starve

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But trying to starve the terrorists of money is like trying to catch one kind of fish by draining the ocean.
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?
They didn’t starve, but they didn’t thrive, either.
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.
The general public sees attacks on terrorist finance as a way to "starve the terrorists of money."