Example sentences for: starving

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

  • The problem is just too big; behind every starving child is another equally deserving child.

  • Or maybe the owner thinks the two grand would be better spent as a donation to UNICEF to help save starving children (again unlikely, but possible).

  • Bedraggled, starving and exhausted after a final four days crushed in box cars, we were, I learned later, the most disheartening lot of ragmen they had seen in their more than three years of imprisonment.

  • Like a starving man standing before the bounty of ...

  • Their training, kept secret from even their wives, involved making them lie motionless for two months with their heads lower than their legs, keeping them for long periods in isolation chambers in total darkness and silence, making them give samples of bone marrow and muscle and bone tissue without anesthesia, and starving one man for 20 days while showing him pictures of food.


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