starved to death
Example Sentences
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Starvation in Gaza today summons up my grandmother’s stories of how her family starved to death in the Warsaw ghetto.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 15, 2025
‘It starved to death before it ever saw the light of day.’
From Salon • Oct. 15, 2024
A man claims his wife starved to death in hospital while she was being treated for abdominal pains.
From BBC • Feb. 8, 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
When time passed and the animals had evidently not starved to death, Frederick and Pilkmgton changed their tune and began to talk of the terrible wickedness that now flourished on Animal Farm.
From "Animal Farm: A Fairy Story" by George Orwell
