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Example sentences for: starved

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Inman's conversation, in late-20 th -century writing-school style, is intelligently starved ("It is still a cloudy matter to me if I did the right thing, letting you live"), and his inner life is carefully rationed.
Cells were serum starved for 16 h in 12-well plates, then stimulated with IGF-I (10 or 100 ng/ml) for 5 min at 37°C.
One teenager seriously explained to me that the Ukrainians "starved themselves."
The president was "[l]onely and starved for affection.
Thus, after microinjection, the cells were grown in medium supplemented with serum for 4 to 6 hours and then serum starved overnight to cause the redistribution of GR-GFP.