13 example sentences using starve.
Starve used in a sentence
Starve in a sentence as a verb
That people starve while food rots isn't rare.
Whereas "Accept our terms of employment or starve," isn't?
Hundreds of thousands of people are expected to starve to death in the next few months.
The ordinary human being would sooner starve than live on brown bread and raw carrots.
It is easy to starve, so the first few days are scrambling just to get to a subsistent existence.
When hundreds of millions do it together, it can starve the global economy.
Know when to cut loose -- you can still be involved with your beloved codebase, but for heaven's sake, get a real job before you all starve!
An unconditional basic income[1] would speed up a paradigm shift from the current "work or starve" society.
You can make obscene amounts of money building another photo sharing or dating app, but try to work on an important problem and you'll starve to death.
[Edit: Generic personal finance advice for everyone: Unless your children will starve in the snow otherwise, it is never a good time to cash out your retirement account.
However, they still starved because they were not positively free to do anything, they did not have the functioning of nourishment, nor the capability to escape morbidity.
There's a lot to be said for that when you're a neolithic hunter-gatherer or an iron-age peasant -- if you try something new and it fails, you maybe get to watch your family starve next spring -- but it's a bit less useful as a rule of thumb in the data centre.
Sen also argued that the Bengal famine was caused by an urban economic boom that raised food prices, thereby causing millions of rural workers to starve to death when their wages did not keep up.[17] However, this argument has recently been undermined by evidence suggesting significant decline in food availability in the Bengal Famine.
Starve definitions
die of food deprivation; "The political prisoners starved to death"; "Many famished in the countryside during the drought"
See also: famish
deprive of food; "They starved the prisoners"
See also: famish
deprive of a necessity and cause suffering; "he is starving her of love"; "The engine was starved of fuel"