How to Use be starving/starved in a Sentence

be starving/starved

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  • None will be starved for cash, given how intense feelings are about the issues that divide them.
    Joe Garofoli, San Francisco Chronicle, 1 July 2021
  • The poorest in our society are going to be starving to death the second half of this year.
    Jill Lawless, Anchorage Daily News, 6 July 2022
  • Some libraries that already struggle for funding might be starved out of existence….
    Lisa Bubert, Longreads, 19 Sep. 2023
  • One side argues that its power can be overcome with good deeds, the other that it must be starved of ammunition.
    Alex Pareene, The New Republic, 12 June 2021
  • For years the neighborhood was besieged, leading most of its residents to flee and those who remained to be starved, bombed, and killed.
    Ursula Lindsey, The New York Review of Books, 6 July 2022
  • Fans in those places might be starved for some real football after doses of Rutgers and Nebraska.
    Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 6 Sep. 2023
  • Fans in those places might be starved for some real football after doses of Rutgers and Nebraska.
    Bill Dwyre, Los Angeles Times, 5 Sep. 2023
  • The authors of that study found that the carnivores could be starved into extinction within decades as the sea ice disappears and the bears lose their hunting ground.
    Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 8 Sep. 2021
  • All should make clear that any government imposed by force will suffer international isolation and be starved of aid and development funds.
    Star Tribune, 1 July 2021
  • Some migrating songbirds may be starving thanks to agricultural pesticides.
    Roni Dengler, Discover Magazine, 11 Sep. 2019
  • Computex might be the right time for AMD to do this, bringing an exciting power play to a show that might otherwise be starved for new silicon.
    Pcmag Staff, PC Magazine, 15 May 2025
  • About 90% of those people who make the city thrive use transit to get to Midtown and Downtown, and transit will be starved in order to cater to the tiny minority who choose to drive.
    New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 6 June 2024
  • As more deposits are moved up to the largest banks or out of the banking system altogether, regional and community banks will be starved of liquidity, which will cause irreparable harm to the economy.
    Randell Leach, Fortune, 31 Mar. 2023
  • Humanitarian officials have warned that a growing number of people might be starving to death as access, while improving, remains restricted.
    Fox News, 28 Feb. 2021
  • Humanitarian officials have warned that a growing number of people may be starving to death in Tigray, according to the Associated Press.
    Mica Soellner, Washington Examiner, 28 Feb. 2021
  • Trump himself has vacillated between siding with the populist and nationalist conservatives who have been his enduring supporters, many of them seeking a new blue-collar GOP, and businesses claiming to be starved for labor.
    W. James Antle Iii, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 28 Dec. 2024

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