Thesaurus / starved

starved

How to use starved in a sentence

Surely there can be no question of this poor starved beast injuring anybody, can there?

He gave up the castle to Bruce on February 7, the short siege probably indicating that he was starved into surrender.

In Cheshire and Lancashire the word is in common use to this day, and invariably means starved for want of food.

A person exceedingly hungry says, "I'm welly clem'd; I'm almost or well-nigh starved."

He became a successful corporation lawyer and I starved for a while and then I became a private detective.

Or was I unkind, and she but starved for kindness and human sympathy, so long among a people who disliked and feared her?

He tells her a ghastly story of a titan soul who starved in a garret and shot himself, crushed by the mockery of the world.

But this same nature, when pinched and starved, becomes a perfect storehouse of enmity and ill-feeling.

Keep us all up here after our time is worked out till the last man of us is starved to death or frozen?

We read of one town and garrison of eight thousand souls, abandoned by their king, starved, and without clothes or ammunition.

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OCTOBER 26, 1985