How to Use go hungry in a Sentence

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  • Up to 20 million people in the Horn of Africa could go hungry this year.
    Emma Ogao, ABC News, 16 June 2023
  • In the meantime, your girl will have to court mischief to eat or go hungry.
    Anna Deavere Smith, The Atlantic, 13 Nov. 2023
  • No one had to go hungry in these cathedrals of commerce.
    Los Angeles Times, 14 Dec. 2021
  • Plus, there are ice cream and mac n cheese food trucks on-premise, so nobody will go hungry.
    Judy Koutsky, Forbes, 13 Oct. 2021
  • The World Food Program warned that 20 million people in the region could go hungry because of drought by the end of the year.
    Claire Parker, Washington Post, 15 June 2022
  • And lest their guests go hungry, a churro station was on hand to provide late-night treats.
    Lauren Tappan, Town & Country, 19 Nov. 2022
  • Parents go hungry to feed children who still need more.
    Hajar Harb, Washington Post, 30 Nov. 2023
  • With disruptions to the system, prices rise, food is scarce – and people go hungry.
    Thomas Hertel, The Conversation, 9 Mar. 2021
  • DeHaan was surprised to see how skinny Harley was and said the dog would never go hungry again.
    Joe Mario Pedersen, Orlando Sentinel, 7 July 2022
  • The best way to lose weight is with exercise and a healthy, balanced diet, not to go hungry, experts say.
    Cindy Krischer Goodman, sun-sentinel.com, 22 Oct. 2021
  • Fans heading to Ford Field for Sunday's watch party won't go hungry.
    Susan Selasky, Detroit Free Press, 26 Jan. 2024
  • After letting the birds go hungry overnight, the team gave them a chance to complete mental tests that provided food as a reward.
    John Timmer, Ars Technica, 14 Sep. 2023
  • Rest assured that no matter what happens on the 4th, your family will not go hungry.
    Jennifer Aldrich, Country Living, 8 June 2022
  • What’s more, the catalyst for low rates, a limp U.S. economy, is the same force that has caused millions of Americans to lose jobs or even go hungry.
    Orla McCaffrey, WSJ, 8 Sep. 2020
  • Katz Asher saved her own small portions of food — pita with spreadable cheese and spiced rice with meat — so that her daughters wouldn’t go hungry.
    Doha Madani, NBC News, 18 Dec. 2023
  • Thus far, the researchers have found, participants have been less likely to get sick or go hungry, and more likely to start a business.
    Megan Greenwell, Washington Post, 24 Oct. 2022
  • Bands were always fed after performing, so the parents knew their kids wouldn’t go hungry.
    Los Angeles Times, 6 Dec. 2021
  • If Ukrainian ports remain blocked, grain silos won't be emptied and the new harvest may simply rot on the fields while millions go hungry.
    Tim Benton, CNN, 13 July 2022
  • Those families could go hungry if the program runs out of money during a shutdown.
    Washington Post Staff, Washington Post, 28 Sep. 2023
  • Even early birds may go hungry as 2021 holiday shopping poised to be a challenge.
    Bryan Schott, The Salt Lake Tribune, 20 Oct. 2021
  • These words also bring to mind the people who give so generously of their time, food and money to see that no one in our county ever needs to go hungry.
    Hermine Saunders, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 14 Nov. 2020
  • The new government is struggling to feed the country’s thirty-nine million people, and the chance that an Afghan baby will go hungry and die is the highest in twenty years.
    Jane Ferguson, The New Yorker, 5 Jan. 2022
  • In a Caribbean nation of 11 million, where 60 percent are poor and just as many go hungry, there would be even more suffering.
    Washington Post, 31 Aug. 2021
  • Universal free lunch was instituted at the start of the pandemic to make sure children wouldn't go hungry through the crisis.
    Lily Altavena, Detroit Free Press, 22 June 2022
  • But to many Haitians, Mr. Célestin is also a symbol of one of their biggest grievances: a ruling class that enriches itself while so many go hungry.
    New York Times, 10 July 2021
  • Groups on the front line of the humanitarian crisis say that means people will go hungry and will be sleeping on sidewalks.
    Lauren Villagran, USA TODAY, 13 May 2023
  • Groups on the front line of the humanitarian crisis say that means people will go hungry and will be sleeping on sidewalks.
    Lauren Villagran, USA TODAY, 13 May 2023
  • Houstonians won’t go hungry at this newest addition to the city's brunch scene.
    Rebecca Treon, Chron, 2 May 2022
  • The question is why many people still go hungry when production increases year over year.
    Kathleen Merrigan, The Conversation, 3 Nov. 2021
  • Because of Alberta Jones, hundreds of children didn't go hungry or had presents at Christmas when their parents lost their jobs.
    Stephanie Kuzydym, The Courier-Journal, 8 July 2023

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