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Example sentences for: starves

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On this view, Microsoft buys out potential rivals or starves them to death by stealing their innovations and adding them to Windows.
That would have been all, folks, were Louis not a complete schmuck who capriciously drains the kingdom's coffers with foreign wars, starves a lot of smudgy faced extras (who hurl rotten fruit at his guards), and falls on whatever beauteous wench strikes his royal fancy.