famish

Example Sentences

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The President pondered, smiled, said: "Well, they can't famish on that."

From Time Magazine Archive

But, in the interim, she must starve and famish like a white mouse learning to dance.'

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 56, No. 345, July, 1844 by Various

So viands were produced; to which the guests were invited to pay heedful attention; or take the consequences, and famish till the long voyage in prospect was ended.

From Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. I by Melville, Herman

Deprive her of that, and you starve her as effectually as you famish a human being by abstraction of food.

From Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 450 Volume 18, New Series, August 14, 1852 by Chambers, Robert

Relief must soon come from some quarter, else many in this community will famish.

From A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital by Jones, John Beauchamp