How to Use starvation in a Sentence

starvation

noun
  • The famine brought mass starvation.
  • Millions of people face starvation every day.
  • Heat stress that lasts more than a few weeks can lead the coral to die of starvation.
    Julia Musto, Fox News, 11 May 2022
  • Amid this void, the north is stalked by mass starvation.
    Mairav Zonszein, TIME, 4 Apr. 2024
  • In 2011, failed rains led to a wave of starvation that led to a national tragedy.
    Faustine Ngila, Quartz, 6 Feb. 2023
  • And one of the questions is whether the households have lost a child because of starvation.
    Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 2 May 2024
  • And drought in East Africa has left millions at risk of starvation.
    Justin Worland, Time, 28 Oct. 2022
  • Riyadh and Abu Dhabi have clout to jointly force an end to the starvation tactics.
    Alex De Waal, Foreign Affairs, 17 June 2024
  • The growths also could get in the way of their ability to see, eat or drink, which could lead to starvation.
    Chloe Gonzales, USA TODAY, 15 July 2022
  • Tens of millions of people in Africa or in the Middle East will turn out to be on the brink of starvation — because of the West.
    Catherine Belton, Washington Post, 3 June 2022
  • The legacy of starvation was never far from the surface.
    Smithsonian Magazine, 25 Jan. 2024
  • Disease and starvation lead the entire colony to the brink of extinction.
    Lorraine Berry, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Sep. 2023
  • The charges include the use of starvation as a method of warfare and attacks on civilians.
    Dan Perry, Newsweek, 26 Nov. 2024
  • Food is scarce and the city is erupting with violence fueled by the fear of starvation.
    Jourdain Searles, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Sep. 2023
  • The war has leveled vast swaths of the tiny enclave and pushed a quarter of residents to starvation.
    Matthew Lee, arkansasonline.com, 7 Feb. 2024
  • Put simply, hunger and starvation are already here and kicking in the door.
    Ian Pannell, ABC News, 15 Dec. 2021
  • First, 49 million people are on the brink of starvation.
    Gayle E. Smith, Forbes, 21 June 2022
  • Their mother, Edith, had died of starvation the year before.
    Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 22 Jan. 2022
  • Ethiopia is one of five countries that the U.N. considers at risk of starvation.
    Los Angeles Times, 14 Aug. 2022
  • Tens of thousands of people have been killed since the conflict broke out, while millions have been left on the brink of starvation.
    Mostafa Salem, CNN, 7 Apr. 2022
  • But many manatees have died of starvation because of a lack of seagrass, which is a key source of food.
    Jim Saunders, Sun Sentinel, 7 Nov. 2022
  • The deaths were primarily from starvation due to the loss of seagrass beds.
    CBS News, 22 Jan. 2022
  • Israel has been accused of using starvation in Gaza as a weapon of war.
    Greg Dixon, NPR, 21 Nov. 2024
  • Walker says, with emotion, that some six children a day die of starvation somewhere in the world.
    and David Noyce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 16 Aug. 2023
  • The toddler's cause of death was starvation, and the manner was ruled to be accidental, the sheriff said.
    David K. Li, NBC News, 16 Nov. 2022
  • The famine led to a record number of deaths, with more than 1,100 dying from starvation, boat strikes, cold stress and other causes.
    David Fleshler, sun-sentinel.com, 1 Feb. 2022
  • Most died from starvation, but tens of thousands were killed during reprisals.
    Carolyn Hagler, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Sep. 2023
  • Some 14 million people in Kenya, Somalia and Ethiopia are on the brink of starvation.
    Patrick Galey, NBC News, 22 May 2022
  • The evidence suggests Kik died of starvation around the age of 28, in the late winter or early spring, when resources were at their scarcest.
    Richard Grant, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Oct. 2023
  • Faced with starvation, my father now makes coffee, eggs, toast, and passable suppers of fried meat with corn-on-the-cob.
    Longreads, 20 Apr. 2022

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