Example sentences for: starved

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

  • Clothing and rations are scarce: Navy servicemen have starved to death.

  • This would seem especially true in the current set of experiments, since the modulation of Thymidylate Synthase expression is known to greatly affect thymidine levels and cell growth [ 32 ] . For example, E. coli that are starved for thymine quickly die, a phenomenon known as 'thymineless death' [ 33 ] . In this respect, Group I aptazymes that may have yielded lower amounts of functional Thymidylate Synthase (e.g.

  • 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.

  • The president was "[l]onely and starved for affection.

  • Flowing in and out of 80 arched passageways known as vomitoria, aristocrats and plebs alike came to see blood: bears, lions, tigers, and leopards starved into fighting each other and against criminals, war captives, and (according to some historians) Christians.


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