without food

Example Sentences

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"Sometimes we'd work all night without food or a loo break. People were exhausted."

From BBC • Jun. 1, 2026

Instead, the body seemed to enter a very different biological state after about three days without food.

From Science Daily • May 17, 2026

He recalls Maradona recounting how his mother, Dalma "Tota" Franco, would go without food so he could eat his fill.

From Barron's • Apr. 14, 2026

When I explained this to a Muslim friend, he replied that it “kinda sounds like diet Ramadan”—which demands that Muslims go without food or drink from sunup to sundown.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 19, 2026

I heard stories of men rowed a hundred miles when they had to, in worse weather than this, and without food or water.

From "The Young Man and the Sea" by Rodman Philbrick