skyscraper

skyscraper


    Choose language
    flag-widget
    flag-widget
    flag-widget
    flag-widget
    flag-widget
    flag-widget
    flag-widget
    Synonyms and Definitions

    Use "starvation" in a sentence

    starvation example sentences

    starvation


    1. Over those four days of starvation and indiscriminate thuggery, through twelve solitary periods of long stupefaction, I discovered doubt and personal recrimination, emotions about which I had previously known nothing


    2. Where once I had assumed that defiance through starvation might change things for the better, I now felt that an end was the only answer, my end


    3. from starvation in an inward-bound prison


    4. Unless they were masochists who loved pain, prejudice, starvation, hopelessness, and mental anguish as a way of life


    5. might mean the difference between survival and starvation for some


    6. Anorexia is self-imposed starvation


    7. ‘In mine my family are always dying of starvation and


    8. Our soldiers were close to starvation,


    9. inhabitants would then die of starvation – it was clearly


    10. It was only a few flying fish that kept us from starvation

    11. “Bah, when will you ever learn to calm down, you old fool?! Even now, you’re in a cave, with no assurances of ever getting out either due to unwinnable battles or starvation, and you’re still yammering at me about the Guild! I never got the impression you were even that fond of the whole thing really


    12. ” My god I thought steak I hadn’t seen anything like this in ages and jam roly-poly for afterwards it wasn’t as though things were at starvation levels yet but the food situation was getting tight


    13. British historian Robert Conquest"s magisterial treatment of the forced starvation in the Ukraine in 1932-33, in which more than seven million people perished at the whim of the master in the Kremlin


    14. They would live out their lives here without starvation or euthanasia


    15. Raven wondered whether her stomach was distended through starvation or if Salverford had begun admitting pregnant women


    16. They remembered the blackened wreck in Havana Harbour, and the sailor comrades sleeping in that foetid slough; they thought also of the women and children crying aloud for deliverance from starvation and despair, and of the ragged patriots fighting for liberty as their own fathers had fought


    17. Victory was snatched at heavy cost, but a victory that can be attributed alone to Providence; for had the morale of the enemy been less impaired by starvation and disease, or had the fleet remained in Santiago Harbour, the amazing valour of the American soldiers must have gone for naught, and a reverse been entailed


    18. The emaciated survivors of the reconcentrados, whose pudicity had departed through force of circumstances, thought little of the lack of privacy; but the delicate Cuban ladies from the city felt their position keenly until they also sank into the apathy of starvation


    19. The killings were carried out by Indonesia's military or caused by concentration camps and deliberate starvation tactics making Timorese vulnerable to disease


    20. Indonesia's military carried out all of the killings in East Timor, nearly all civilians, as well as rapes, torture, and forcible relocation that caused mass starvation

    21. But they are family and how could I let them die of starvation


    22. ) Besides the California Indian genocide, which three US presidents deliberately ignored, what role did US presidents play in these other massacres, as well as in biological warfare and wiping out the buffalo and other starvation tactics?


    23. Johnson and Rutherford's guilt is in failing to stop this extermination and starvation tactic


    24. “You can die of starvation and thirst, exposure or heat or cold


    25. The international media, a heavy presence due to the war, was there to report the sight of so many refugees' deaths by Iraqi troop attacks, starvation, or cold


    26. It’s oxygen starvation, and the brain runs on oxygen


    27. He’d remembered those long hours before the numbness of starvation had set in


    28. I am not surprised that I haven’t experienced that as Thais eat a lot and if they had to wait to be asked they would probably die of starvation! Do not lick your fingers


    29. chose not to leave their homes and possessions resulting in starvation,


    30. Englishman, the world’s population would become limited by its food supply, which in turn would produce widespread famine and starvation

    31. Now he had heard the mob is demanding that his troops, who had just saved them from starvation, be stoned in the streets


    32. Terri Schiavo, supposedly brain dead and in a coma for many years, was left for days to die of dehydration and starvation when her feeding tubes were pulled by order of her husband


    33. “A hungry vampire is a toxic one” I repeated, but he said I would never feed on him, even if the only other possibility was starvation


    34. 12 And on that night again he reasoned within himself how he could save himself from starvation, and he devised a scheme how to act


    35. 30 And they said to each other, This can only be that he eats and drinks, for no man can bear starvation for so many days or live as this man has, without even his countenance changing; and three men concealed themselves in a place where the poor man was stationed, to know who it was that brought him bread to eat


    36. In many places starvation is ever present


    37. 88 And he said to them, Do not quarrel on the road, for this thing was from the Lord to keep a great people from starvation, for there will be yet five years of famine in the land


    38. thousands of children died from starvation


    39. would have to endure starvation, and endless twilight, as the sun


    40. starvation the stomach, and the appetite shrinks

    41. starvation? In some cases that seemed like the answer, but there


    42. spring plants found nothing to eat and died of starvation instead of


    43. had killed this family, it had not been starvation


    44. Free of starvation


    45. 12 And on that night again he reasoned within himself how he could save himself from starvation and he devised a scheme how to act


    46. 30 And they said to each other This can only be that he eats and drinks for no man can bear starvation for so many days or live as this man has without even his countenance changing; and three men concealed themselves in a place where the poor man was stationed to know who it was that brought him bread to eat


    47. Starvation had wiped every trace of youth from their faces,


    48. die of oxygen starvation


    49. Their killing, starvation, torture in the


    50. Totally lacking water, food, medical care, skeleton dogs, dogs dead of starvation












































    Show more examples

    Synonyms for "starvation"

    starvation starving famishment

    "starvation" definitions

    a state of extreme hunger resulting from lack of essential nutrients over a prolonged period


    the act of depriving of food or subjecting to famine