starvation

Example Sentences

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The cars' energy starvation has changed the nature of driving.

From BBC

I got the message and we fed him—small amounts, still almost starvation, but something—and Fred returned to his former cheerful self.

From Literature

Almost dead through starvation over that long, cold winter, she somehow stayed alive long enough to get me and the boys to the end of the war before she joined her husband.

From Literature

Unless ocean temperatures return to more tolerable levels, bleached corals are unable to recover and eventually die of starvation.

From Barron's

Crops needed to stave off starvation have been decimated.

From The Wall Street Journal