hunger

Example Sentences

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She is allowed weekly visits to Duannis, who has staged several hunger strikes.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 29, 2026

Hundreds of Venezuelan workers and pensioners marched Monday for an increase in "hunger" wages as well as pensions frozen for four years and eroded by galloping inflation.

From Barron's • Mar. 23, 2026

At UCLA, professors in the Chicana/o and Central American Studies program — its founding dates to a 1993 hunger strike modeled after ones Chávez did — voted to remove his name from the department.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 23, 2026

"I don't know who brought this hunger, it's too severe," says Regina Ewute Lokopuu, one of the women pounding the fruits.

From BBC • Mar. 19, 2026

The care lines, the grief lines, the deep hollows of hunger and disease were simply gone.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom