unfed

Example Sentences

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“Her voice slips through our ribs, like a ghost, attracted by our hunger, by the space made for her in our shrunken, unfed bellies,” she writes of June.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 7, 2022

“Every day, the California dream is dimmed by the wrenching reality of families and children and seniors living unfed on a concrete bed.”

From New York Times • Feb. 19, 2020

In the meantime, however, there is a huge, unfed appetite among police agencies for drones and their powerful surveillance tools, which include infrared cameras and specialized radar.

From Washington Post • Jan. 15, 2014

Wednesday I sat with Holtzman, unfed, through long meetings about fundraising for the Syria Trust.

From Newsweek • Jul. 30, 2012

When Mr. Jones got back he immediately went to sleep on the drawing-room sofa with the Neivs of the World over his face, so that when evening came, the animals were still unfed.

From "Animal Farm: A Fairy Story" by George Orwell