12 example sentences using starving.
Starving used in a sentence
Starving in a sentence as a noun
Lady Gaga might lose money to piracy, but she is hardly a starving artist.
Didn't think so. "It's a piece of ****" says a highly self-interested blogger, and Hacker News jumps on that like starving dogs on Alpo.
Maybe if you put the American Empire in its place and position this in the latter half of the 2000s century and starving people want our rice/corn?
Touch social spending and the cool people will call you a heartless bastard who cackles at the sight of starving widows in between gulps of baby orphan blood.
"Please remember the above quote next time you hear some corporate puppet bring up the "starving artist" argument in a copyright policy debate.
This would presumably make quite a difference for semi-starving pastoral populations in 10,000 BC.
Starving in a sentence as an adjective
So in my mind the question really goes the other way, how does donating money to buy food for starving children in Africa improve Africa's condition in the long term?
Are you giving all of your income with the exception of the little you need to save for retirement and the little you need to survive to help starving kids in this country or the next?
I wish we didn't do it to people and I decline as many of the lunch interviews I have to give as possible--I don't think I learn much from the candidates as they are starving and tired and trying to put food in their faces.
The number of these new children would almost certainly be higher than the number I originally helped bring out of famine, so at that point there would be just as many if not more starving children than we had to begin with.
I don't know if this makes me cruel, but whenever people talk about donating money to starving children in Africa, I always imagine the following: If I were to donate some amount of money to starving children in an impoverished nation every year I could, theoretically, bring some of them out of starvation.
Proper Noun Examples for Starving
Starving artists who are starving because they think that they are a precious snowflake immune to Microeconomics 101 are an entirely different problem.
Starving definitions
the act of depriving of food or subjecting to famine; "the besiegers used starvation to induce surrender"; "they were charged with the starvation of children in their care"
See also: starvation
suffering from lack of food
See also: starved