How to Use hunger strike in a Sentence

hunger strike

noun

• The next day, 16 of these women went on a hunger strike.
  — National Geographic, 13 Aug. 2020
• When suffragettes were arrested by police, many also went on hunger strike.
  — Elfy Scott, refinery29.com, 4 Mar. 2024
• Paul, mostly recovered from her last hunger strike, was also upbeat.
  — National Geographic, 13 Aug. 2020
• Dozens of women were imprisoned by that fall, and Paul endured brutal force-feedings while on a hunger strike.
  — Georgia Slater, PEOPLE.com, 14 Aug. 2020
• All four people who began the hunger strike on July 20 were at Sunday's press event.
  — Lucas Aulbach, The Courier-Journal, 10 Aug. 2020
• Timtik's death comes months after two members of a left-wing popular folk group that is banned in Turkey also died of a hunger strike.
  — Suzan Fraser, Star Tribune, 28 Aug. 2020
• The film shows activists during that sit-in sleeping on floors, communicating in sign language, engaging in a hunger strike.
  — Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 25 Mar. 2020
• When her heart failed suddenly, Kahlua— a paint the color of the Mexican liqueur and swaybacked like a hammock— went on a hunger strike.
  — Jane Shore, The New Yorker, 31 Aug. 2020
• By 10, Chavez Rodriguez was an experienced picketer and was handing out boycott leaflets as news broke that Chávez was on a hunger strike.
  — Elaine Ayala, ExpressNews.com, 22 Aug. 2020
• This channel is for the person who wants better sound and is willing to pay more than a few hundred bucks for it but isn't going to go on a hunger strike to afford an uber-expensive system the size of a falafel cart.
  — Matt Jancer, Wired, 10 July 2020
• Borrowing tactics from her radical British peers, suffrage leader Alice Paul staged a hunger strike in protest of their mistreatment.
  — Christina Ewig, Star Tribune, 7 Aug. 2020
• There came a time when López went on hunger strike — 28 days.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 18 Oct. 2021
• Like Hunger, this movie is inspired by the 1981 hunger strike at the Maze prison.
  — Marisa Lascala, Good Housekeeping, 13 Jan. 2023
• Soni helped the workers travel to the White House and stage a hunger strike.
  — Sarah Stillman, The New Yorker, 1 Nov. 2021
• Jeschke and six others launched a hunger strike Aug. 30.
  — Karin Laub, ajc, 23 Sep. 2021
• On Tuesday, two weeks into the hunger strike, the group was forced to end it.
  — Washington Post, 3 Nov. 2021
• Nirmal Singh, 42, has been on a hunger strike for 18 days.
  — Sakshi Venkatraman, NBC News, 22 Sep. 2023
• Reznicek, who was two weeks into a hunger strike at the time, welcomed the news.
  — Julia Shipley, Rolling Stone, 26 May 2021
• Some of them had been on a hunger strike since Tuesday to put pressure on the UC.
  — Mathew Miranda, Sacramento Bee, 26 Jan. 2024
• His three-week hunger strike has brought him to what his doctors say from afar could be the brink of death.
  — Kenneth Roth, CNN, 19 Apr. 2021
• Some of the lawmakers are doing a hunger strike for up to five days.
  — James Hibberd, The Hollywood Reporter, 28 Nov. 2023
• Ronaghi is on a hunger strike to protest his arrest on Sept. 24.
  — Miriam Berger, Washington Post, 14 Nov. 2022
• Back in 2016, IIT Kharagpur students went on a hunger strike over such a hike.
  — Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz, 20 July 2022
• He was put on trial twice and died while on a hunger strike in the Soviet prison in 1985.
  — New York Times, 1 July 2022
• Before taking part in the hunger strike, the group discussed the risks, Garcia said.
  — Hannah Demissie, ABC News, 19 Dec. 2021
• The party said Woo has been on a hunger strike for the past 14 days to protest the Japanese discharge plans.
  — Kim Tong-Hyung, BostonGlobe.com, 9 July 2023
• Cynthia Nixon is going on a hunger strike to protest the Israel–Hamas war.
  — James Hibberd, The Hollywood Reporter, 28 Nov. 2023
• Aliy was in the middle of his second week of a hunger strike and spoke with a fleece blanket wrapped around his body.
  — Sean Sirota, Vogue, 4 Nov. 2021
• When hunger strikes, the Mayrose brasserie is open for breakfast and dinner.
  — Christina Liao, Travel + Leisure, 16 June 2023
• In August, hundreds of prisoners staged a mass hunger strike that lasted for weeks, prompting street protests.
  — Vivian Nereim, New York Times, 5 May 2024

Last Updated: 25 Oct 2024