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• So the manatees have to make that choice to stay warm or starve to death in that process.
  — Amy Green, orlandosentinel.com, 10 Nov. 2021
• Millions of people in the Tigray region remain cut off from the world, and some have begun to starve to death.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 18 Aug. 2021
• But Malama didn’t starve to death or get eaten by a predator.
  — Jonathan Edwards, Washington Post, 8 June 2023
• Millions of Afghans do not have enough to eat, and a million children could starve to death this winter.
  — New York Times, 30 Dec. 2021
• Climate change, supply chain chaos, and now this war — in six months’ time, poor people will starve to death.
  — Washington Post, 7 Apr. 2022
• Hunger pangs come from our brains, wired to crave nourishment so our bodies don’t starve to death.
  — Lizz Schumer, Good Housekeeping, 10 June 2021
• Except Biden made the charge even more lurid by alleging that Trump had let children starve to death.
  — The Editors, National Review, 25 Mar. 2021
• The bacteria break down the walls of the stomach and intestines, so an elk can starve to death with a belly full of alfalfa.
  — oregonlive, 29 Jan. 2022
• For the past year, the plight of manatees has been high on the commission’s agenda, as loss of seagrass to pollution caused a record number to starve to death.
  — David Fleshler, Sun Sentinel, 15 Apr. 2022
• The unanswered question remains however, what is causing these seabirds to starve to death?
  — Davis Hovey, Anchorage Daily News, 31 Aug. 2021
• Without enough light, plants draw on sugar reserves to meet survival needs and can slowly starve to death, Pennisi says.
  — Leslie Nemo, Discover Magazine, 21 Aug. 2020
• Some starve to death after being abandoned by smugglers.
  — Ray Sanchez, CNN, 6 Mar. 2021
• In the 1970s, the world will undergo famines — hundreds of millions of people are going to starve to death in spite of any crash programs embarked upon now.
  — Kevin D. Williamson, National Review, 17 Mar. 2022
• The stress from high temperatures can cause coral to expel its algae and slowly starve to death, which leads it to become a ghostly white.
  — Victoria Sayo Turner, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 July 2023
• Unable to move for four days and determined not to starve to death, the teenager survived by drinking his own urine, according to news agencies.
  — Ziad Jaber, NBC News, 10 Feb. 2023
• Some even starve to death because their digestive systems become blocked.
  — Delger Erdenesanaa, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Aug. 2023
• As a result, bats that use up their winter stores before spring either starve to death or leave their caves early in what becomes a vain search for food in the unwelcoming, bug-less cold.
  — Geoffrey Giller, Discover Magazine, 21 July 2018
• Realizing she's been left to starve to death, the rage comes, followed by the tears, followed by hallucinations of birds and flickering lights and her daughter's voice.
  — Sara Netzley, EW.com, 9 Mar. 2023
• Animals that fill their guts with plastics eventually starve to death.
  — Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 26 June 2023
• As a result, some elderly people chose to starve to death in hopes that whatever meager supplies were thereby saved would allow younger people to live.
  — Melissa Chadburn, The New York Review of Books, 27 Aug. 2020
• The corals appear white after ejecting their colorful partners and ultimately can starve to death.
  — Washington Post, 7 Nov. 2021
• Colonists drove scores of people into the nearby Kalahari Desert, where they were left to starve to death; German troops also constructed concentration camps where survivors were forced into enslaved labor and often died of exhaustion.
  — Nora McGreevy, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 June 2021
• Without an ample seagrass supply, manatees can become malnourished and eventually starve to death.
  — Scottie Andrew, CNN, 12 July 2021

Last Updated: 20 Sep 2024