famine
Example Sentences
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This is our body’s survival mechanism, evolved over many centuries, to slow our metabolism down and conserve energy during times of famine or stress.
Some decried their use as a way for biochemical companies to make money; others declared that GMOs would save the world from famine and food insecurity.
From Literature
Tkhoryk recalled the words of her grandmother who survived first a Soviet-imposed famine that killed millions in Ukraine in the 1930s and then World War II.
He covered war, famine, riots and assassinations, the Bhopal gas tragedy and the Indian army's storming of the Sikh Golden Temple.
From BBC
The following year, nearly all of the potato fields had been infected, leading to years of famine.
From Los Angeles Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
