How to Use famine in a Sentence

famine

noun

• The famine affected half the continent.
• Droughts in the mid-1960s raised the specter of famine.
  — Sadanand Dhume, WSJ, 23 Dec. 2021
• How much will that help to forestall the threat of famine?
  — Washington Post, 15 Dec. 2021
• In the decades following the famine, the Irish spread to every corner of the globe.
  — Diego Lasarte, Quartz, 16 Mar. 2023
• The one that killed more than a million of its own people in a famine.
  — Danielle Pletka, National Review, 12 Feb. 2022
• Much of Gaza is at risk of famine in the next several months.
  — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 3 Jan. 2024
• It’s been feast or famine for the Lions defense of late.
  — Eddie Brown, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Nov. 2023
• This dates all the way back to at least the Irish potato famine in the 19th century.
  — Elizabeth Denton, Allure, 15 Oct. 2021
• Needless to say, there is no famine of glamour to speak of.
  — Roxanne Adamiyatt, Town & Country, 9 Sep. 2022
• There was a famine that prompted the Lakota chief to send scouts to hunt for food.
  — Saleen Martin, USA TODAY, 1 July 2024
• This aid is far from sufficient — the risk of famine looms.
  — Alexander Smith, NBC News, 30 Oct. 2024
• 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
• The amount that is raised can determine feast or famine.
  — Mike Desimone and Jeff Jenssen, Forbes, 10 Feb. 2023
• The goal was to raise money for the famine that was unfolding at that time in Ethiopia.
  — Michela Moscufo, ABC News, 4 Aug. 2022
• Role plays a part in that sort of famine, but it’s not everything.
  — Tom Rende, Forbes, 10 Apr. 2021
• Teach them to hunt, fish, gather and process food, then to prepare for times of famine and war.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 17 Mar. 2022
• 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
• So much sports now, to say the least: April famine, September feast.
  — Fred Lief, Chron, 24 Dec. 2020
• The entire crop was destroyed, and the Irish potato famine was the result.
  — Joshua Hammer, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Aug. 2021
• Since the pandemic, it’s been feast or famine at the box office.
  — Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 22 Aug. 2022
• Speaking of which, there is a literal famine in Gaza caused by the war.
  — Abid Rahman, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Apr. 2024
• Aid groups have warned of famine and say the aid that has come in is nowhere near enough to meeting mounting needs.
  — Wafaa Shurafa, Chicago Tribune, 26 May 2025
• The first, of course, was the song’s reason for being: to save the lives of Ethiopians victimized by famine.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 29 Jan. 2024
• Is the threat of famine, protests and distress from higher food prices behind us?
  — Julia Horowitz, CNN, 26 July 2022
• Afghanistan faces its worst drought in four decades and impending famine.
  — WSJ, 30 Dec. 2021
• The government at that time did not want the famine to be public knowledge.
  — New York Times, 4 Aug. 2021
• The idea of Irish indolence fused with a quasi-religious faith in the laws of the market to shape the British response to the famine.
  — Fintan O'Toole, The New Yorker, 10 Mar. 2025
• More than twenty million people are on the brink of famine.
  — Jane Ferguson, The New Yorker, 5 Jan. 2022
• Millions of Afghans face the threat of famine in the first winter following the Taliban takeover.
  — Arkansas Online, 16 Jan. 2022
• Millions of Afghans face the threat of famine in the first winter following the Taliban takeover.
  — chicagotribune.com, 16 Jan. 2022