How to Use starvation in a Sentence

starvation

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  • The famine brought mass starvation.
  • Millions of people face starvation every day.
  • Amid this void, the north is stalked by mass starvation.
    — Mairav Zonszein, TIME, 4 Apr. 2024
  • In 2011, failed rains led to a wave of starvation that led to a national tragedy.
    — Faustine Ngila, Quartz, 6 Feb. 2023
  • And drought in East Africa has left millions at risk of starvation.
    — Justin Worland, Time, 28 Oct. 2022
  • The legacy of starvation was never far from the surface.
    — Smithsonian Magazine, 25 Jan. 2024
  • Disease and starvation lead the entire colony to the brink of extinction.
    — Lorraine Berry, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Sep. 2023
  • Food is scarce and the city is erupting with violence fueled by the fear of starvation.
    — Jourdain Searles, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Sep. 2023
  • The war has leveled vast swaths of the tiny enclave and pushed a quarter of residents to starvation.
    — Matthew Lee, arkansasonline.com, 7 Feb. 2024
  • But many manatees have died of starvation because of a lack of seagrass, which is a key source of food.
    — Jim Saunders, Sun Sentinel, 7 Nov. 2022
  • Walker says, with emotion, that some six children a day die of starvation somewhere in the world.
    — and David Noyce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 16 Aug. 2023
  • The toddler's cause of death was starvation, and the manner was ruled to be accidental, the sheriff said.
    — David K. Li, NBC News, 16 Nov. 2022
  • Most died from starvation, but tens of thousands were killed during reprisals.
    — Carolyn Hagler, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Sep. 2023
  • The evidence suggests Kik died of starvation around the age of 28, in the late winter or early spring, when resources were at their scarcest.
    — Richard Grant, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Oct. 2023
  • The charity group Save the Children said deaths from starvation and disease might top those killed in bombings in Gaza.
    — CBS News, 10 Dec. 2023
  • His father came home from fighting during the siege of Leningrad, in which nearly a million people died of starvation or during the shelling of the city.
    — CBS News, 7 Dec. 2022
  • For the past three years, adult falcon pairs have hatched a total of 10 chicks, but several died of starvation or were killed by predators.
    — Dana Hedgpeth, Washington Post, 2 July 2023
  • In addition to the threat of starvation, Flaco must survive a multitude of dangers in the city.
    — Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Feb. 2023
  • Jiang learned about her grandfather’s death by starvation and began to research the famine.
    — Ian Johnson, Foreign Affairs, 19 Dec. 2023
  • Inside, we were confronted by horrific images of starvation that would soon haunt the rest of the world.
    — Scott Peterson, The Christian Science Monitor, 27 Feb. 2023
  • The feeding was designed to stave off further starvation.
    — Jim Saunders, Sun Sentinel, 7 Nov. 2022
  • Hunger is already a concern: Millions in Nigeria are at risk of starvation.
    — National Geographic, 21 Mar. 2023
  • Kenya’s state pathologist says many of the remains found show signs of extreme starvation, some were smothered, and a few showed blunt force trauma.
    — David McKenzie, CNN, 19 June 2023
  • What will happen to the more than two million Palestinians facing both war and starvation?
    — ABC News, 22 Oct. 2023
  • The few aid trucks that get through are overrun by desperate families at risk of starvation.
    — John Bacon, USA TODAY, 7 Mar. 2024
  • Autopsies show that most died of starvation, while others were bludgeoned to death.
    — David McKenzie, CNN, 27 Mar. 2024
  • With the Saudi coalition imposing a blockade, food became scarce and much of the population was pushed to the brink of starvation.
    — Robert F. Worth, The Atlantic, 5 Mar. 2024
  • The worst-case scenario, Patel notes, is already playing out in the Horn of Africa, where severe droughts have left 22 million people at risk of starvation.
    — Indigo Olivier, The New Republic, 27 Oct. 2022
  • This further bolsters the theory that a weather event triggered their die-off, rather than mass starvation brought on by a prolonged drought, per the New York Times.
    — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Aug. 2023
  • Family members and aid agencies have been warning for weeks that those on board the vessel are on the brink of starvation after their food and water ran out.
    — Rhea Mogul, CNN, 26 Dec. 2022

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