How to Use be starving/starved in a Sentence

be starving/starved

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• The owner was pumping it full of fish food, yet the fish appeared to be starving.
  — jsonline.com, 30 Aug. 2021
• To be starving and then to eat is satisfying and feels good.
  — Jackie Strause, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 Apr. 2023
• The poorest in our society are going to be starving to death [in] the second half of this year.
  — The Christian Science Monitor, 6 July 2022
• The poorest in our society are going to be starving to death the second half of this year.
  — Jill Lawless, Anchorage Daily News, 6 July 2022
• None will be starved for cash, given how intense feelings are about the issues that divide them.
  — Joe Garofoli, San Francisco Chronicle, 1 July 2021
• The animal also appeared to be starving and died overnight.
  — Salvador Hernandez, Los Angeles Times, 23 Aug. 2022
• For years the neighborhood was besieged, leading most of its residents to flee and those who remained to be starved, bombed, and killed.
  — Ursula Lindsey, The New York Review of Books, 6 July 2022
• One side argues that its power can be overcome with good deeds, the other that it must be starved of ammunition.
  — Alex Pareene, The New Republic, 12 June 2021
• The authors of that study found that the carnivores could be starved into extinction within decades as the sea ice disappears and the bears lose their hunting ground.
  — Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 8 Sep. 2021
• Fans in those places might be starved for some real football after doses of Rutgers and Nebraska.
  — Bill Dwyre, Los Angeles Times, 5 Sep. 2023
• Get this: The fires of wokeness will soon be starved of fuel by the sterile monotony of wokeness’s achievement: enforced orthodoxy.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 13 Jan. 2023
• All should make clear that any government imposed by force will suffer international isolation and be starved of aid and development funds.
  — Star Tribune, 1 July 2021
• Humanitarian officials have warned that a growing number of people may be starving to death in Tigray, according to the Associated Press.
  — Mica Soellner, Washington Examiner, 28 Feb. 2021
• Some migrating songbirds may be starving thanks to agricultural pesticides.
  — Roni Dengler, Discover Magazine, 11 Sep. 2019
• Humanitarian officials have warned that a growing number of people might be starving to death as access, while improving, remains restricted.
  — Fox News, 28 Feb. 2021

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024