How to Use famine in a Sentence

famine

noun

• The famine affected half the continent.
• We were used to lives of feast or famine.
  — Jonathan Taplin, Rolling Stone, 7 Jan. 2026
• How to manage in times of war or famine.
  — Literary Hub, 3 June 2026
• How, and when, is famine declared?
  — Forbes.com, 25 Aug. 2025
• As a result, there was a great famine in the city.
  — Helaine Williams, Arkansas Online, 6 June 2026
• The city would have likely been in famine for months.
  — Rebecca Schneid, Time, 26 Nov. 2025
• Since then, it's been feast or famine for UConn.
  — ABC News, 31 Mar. 2026
• There's still parts of Ethiopia that's facing famine.
  — Michael Abeyta, CBS News, 14 Dec. 2025
• It’s been feast or famine for Pixar during the past two years.
  — Erik Pedersen, Deadline, 20 Nov. 2025
• What happens to people trapped in a famine?
  — Laura Ungar, Chicago Tribune, 23 Aug. 2025
• The one that killed more than a million of its own people in a famine.
  — Danielle Pletka, National Review, 12 Feb. 2022
• This was enough to cause widespread crop failures and famines.
  — Encyclopedia Britannica, 23 Mar. 2026
• This would be feast-or-famine hunting at its toughest.
  — Jim Moore, Outdoor Life, 8 Oct. 2025
• Here’s how a famine can affect the health of those exposed to it.
  — Omer Awan, Forbes.com, 24 Aug. 2025
• Afghanistan faces its worst drought in four decades and impending famine.
  — WSJ, 30 Dec. 2021
• Now, the specter of genocide and famine haunts the region once again.
  — Emmanuel Akinwotu, NPR, 15 Apr. 2026
• And then, at last, as if ice and cold and famine weren’t enough, came the bubonic plague.
  — Jon Meacham, New York Times, 7 May 2020
• And in their wake comes the risk of other calamities, such as the risk of famine.
  — The Economist, 26 June 2020
• The area has been cut off from food and other aid for months, raising fears of famine.
  — Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 28 Dec. 2024
• The war has pushed parts of Sudan into famine.
  — Samy Magdy, Los Angeles Times, 15 Apr. 2026
• The war has pushed parts of Sudan into famine.
  — ABC News, 14 Apr. 2026
• Much of Gaza is at risk of famine in the next several months.
  — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 3 Jan. 2024
• How does the famine in Gaza differ from other famines?
  — Elizabeth Yuko, Rolling Stone, 25 Aug. 2025
• Part of Gaza, around Gaza City, was found to be in famine.
  — ABC News, 1 Mar. 2026
• Aid groups have warned of famine and say the aid that has come in is nowhere near enough to meet mounting needs.
  — Wafaa Shurafa, Los Angeles Times, 26 May 2025
• Teach them to hunt, fish, gather and process food, then to prepare for times of famine and war.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 17 Mar. 2022
• Is the threat of famine, protests and distress from higher food prices behind us?
  — Julia Horowitz, CNN, 26 July 2022
• It's been a feast-or-famine postseason on the pitcher's mound so far.
  — Noah Trister, Star Tribune, 2 Oct. 2020
• There was a famine that prompted the Lakota chief to send scouts to hunt for food.
  — Saleen Martin, USA TODAY, 1 July 2024
• Snow here is feast or famine—either nothing or a blizzard that shuts down life for a week.
  — Valerie Fraser Luesse, Southern Living, 22 Jan. 2026