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
About 400 people are thought to have starved to death in the past six months in Ethiopia's Tigray and Amhara regions, according to the national ombudsman.
From BBC ● Feb. 20, 2024
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
During that same day, 10,000 persons, on an average, will have starved to death or died from malnutrition.
From "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut
