starved to death
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Strangely, one of the show’s most captivating songs, “Pavane for a Dead Lizard,” is about a reptile that starved to death because of Victoria’s negligence.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 9, 2025
‘It starved to death before it ever saw the light of day.’
From Salon • Oct. 15, 2024
Then in April, he says two farmers he personally knew starved to death.
From BBC • Dec. 5, 2023
Zelenskiy pointed out that the attack had come in the early hours of the day when Ukrainians commemorate their worst national tragedy -- the 1932-33 Holodomor famine in which several million people starved to death.
From Reuters • Nov. 25, 2023
Unable to hold anything in their systems, many of them starved to death, even with food right in front of them.
From "A Long Walk to Water" by Linda Sue Park
