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.

  • 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 ).

  • Food and fuel were withdrawn, leaving the population to starve.

  • “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."


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