How to Use starve in a Sentence
starve
verb
- They left him to starve out in the desert.
- It was clear that the dog had been starved.
- You don't have to starve yourself to lose weight.
- Without food they would starve.
- They tried to starve their enemies into submission.
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At first, the team assumed the wolves would eat the deer and move on—or starve and perish.
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Doug Johnson,
Ars Technica,
26 Jan. 2023
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If the people closest to the top eat most of the food, then the prisoners near the bottom will starve.
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Stacey Grant,
Seventeen,
18 Apr. 2023
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The coup leaders are now trying to starve Mr. Bazoum to death while holding him hostage.
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Mamadou Kiari Liman-Tinguiri,
WSJ,
13 Aug. 2023
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There he was starved, beaten and put to work as a slave laborer.
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Susan Farrell,
Smithsonian Magazine,
8 May 2023
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Their goal is to starve Russian forces of supplies while closing in on them.
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Daniel Michaels,
WSJ,
3 Sep. 2022
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Soho House wants starving artists that don’t have the money.
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Gary Baum,
The Hollywood Reporter,
6 Mar. 2024
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Smart testified in 2009 that she was drugged, starved, tied to a tree and raped as often as four times a day.
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Stephanie Nolasco,
Fox News,
28 Jan. 2024
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The shrews must consume a hefty meal every few hours, lest the animals starve.
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Max Bennett,
Discover Magazine,
8 Feb. 2024
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Thousands were killed, others enslaved, and many who fled to the mountains were starved out.
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Maham Javaid,
Washington Post,
6 Oct. 2023
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The point of burning the indigenous peoples’ crops was to starve them for the winter, Bickers said.
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Lucas Daprile,
cleveland,
2 Sep. 2023
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He’s fallen for the myth that Israel wants Palestinians to starve.
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Matthew Continetti,
National Review,
6 Apr. 2024
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Without the Kerch Bridge, the Russian force in southern Ukraine—tens of thousands strong—could begin to starve.
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David Axe,
Forbes,
8 Oct. 2022
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And yet the company, no doubt prodded by Landgraf, hasn’t starved the FX brand.
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Vulture,
22 June 2023
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Without observing, you would get hit by a car or starve.
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Arthur C. Brooks,
The Atlantic,
22 Sep. 2022
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If ocean temperatures remain too high for too long, the coral can starve and die.
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Laura Paddison,
CNN,
18 Mar. 2024
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Removing too much of the foliage will starve the tree of nutrients.
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oregonlive,
25 June 2023
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As a result, the crabs have starved, and other species have moved into their habitat and eaten some of the snow crabs that were left behind.
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Tori Latham,
Robb Report,
20 Oct. 2023
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Otherwise the entire group may starve during the tough winter months.
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John Schandelmeier,
Anchorage Daily News,
24 Sep. 2022
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The plan is to starve inflation of the purchases needed to keep prices rising even further.
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Stan Choe,
USA TODAY,
8 Oct. 2022
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Earlier this month, police rescued 15 members of the church who said they had been told to starve themselves to death.
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Harold Maass,
The Week,
24 Apr. 2023
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Her sister Kimberly bragged of starving herself for the Met Gala.
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Elizabeth Logan,
Glamour,
20 July 2023
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As Hartman points out, after slavery, there were two freedoms in the United States: freedom from bondage and the freedom to starve.
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Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor,
The New Yorker,
17 Oct. 2022
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The hope is to slow the economy just enough to starve inflation of the purchases needed to keep prices rising so quickly.
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Damian J. Troise and Stan Choe,
Anchorage Daily News,
3 Oct. 2022
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That will starve the spacecraft of energy, and its batteries will drain.
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Kenneth Chang,
New York Times,
26 Feb. 2024
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People there are starving, and closed borders and crop shortages aren’t helping.
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CNN,
6 Mar. 2023
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