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Example sentences for: starves

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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.
On this view, Microsoft buys out potential rivals or starves them to death by stealing their innovations and adding them to Windows.