How to Use go hungry in a Sentence

go hungry

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  • Plus, there are ice cream and mac n cheese food trucks on-premise, so nobody will go hungry.
    Judy Koutsky, Forbes, 13 Oct. 2021
  • In the meantime, your girl will have to court mischief to eat or go hungry.
    Anna Deavere Smith, The Atlantic, 13 Nov. 2023
  • While there is no on-site restaurant, guests will never go hungry.
    Irene S. Levine, Forbes, 15 Mar. 2025
  • Yet if every hunter thinks this way, the kill will not be made and the tribe as a whole will go hungry.
    John C. Goodman, Forbes, 19 Sep. 2024
  • Some would rather go hungry than eat a different brand of their favorite food.
    Spark, Forbes, 3 Sep. 2024
  • And lest their guests go hungry, a churro station was on hand to provide late-night treats.
    Lauren Tappan, Town & Country, 19 Nov. 2022
  • The other families on their route may go hungry this day or have to take their chances outside.
    Clarissa Ward, CNN, 18 Mar. 2025
  • With disruptions to the system, prices rise, food is scarce – and people go hungry.
    Thomas Hertel, The Conversation, 9 Mar. 2021
  • The best way to lose weight is with exercise and a healthy, balanced diet, not to go hungry, experts say.
    Cindy Krischer Goodman, sun-sentinel.com, 22 Oct. 2021
  • Bands were always fed after performing, so the parents knew their kids wouldn’t go hungry.
    Los Angeles Times, 6 Dec. 2021
  • Up to 20 million people in the Horn of Africa could go hungry this year.
    Emma Ogao, ABC News, 16 June 2023
  • Surely a man need never go hungry in this land, especially when living on a lakeshore.
    Anton Money, Outdoor Life, 15 Aug. 2024
  • Those families could go hungry if the program runs out of money during a shutdown.
    Washington Post Staff, Washington Post, 28 Sep. 2023
  • Rest assured that no matter what happens on the 4th, your family will not go hungry.
    Jennifer Aldrich, Country Living, 8 June 2022
  • The question is why many people still go hungry when production increases year over year.
    Kathleen Merrigan, The Conversation, 3 Nov. 2021
  • Some of those programs even provide lunches for children who may otherwise go hungry.
    Anita Chabria, Los Angeles Times, 30 Apr. 2025
  • DeHaan was surprised to see how skinny Harley was and said the dog would never go hungry again.
    Joe Mario Pedersen, Orlando Sentinel, 7 July 2022
  • Raised in poverty, Jones would often recall being forced to catch, cook and eat rodents, or go hungry.
    Jessica Bennett, VIBE.com, 4 Nov. 2024
  • Fans heading to Ford Field for Sunday's watch party won't go hungry.
    Susan Selasky, Detroit Free Press, 26 Jan. 2024
  • Ensuring our children don’t go hungry at school shouldn’t be a partisan issue.
    Lexi Lonas Cochran, The Hill, 13 Mar. 2025
  • Houstonians won’t go hungry at this newest addition to the city's brunch scene.
    Rebecca Treon, Chron, 2 May 2022
  • The wise sometimes go hungry, and the skillful are not necessarily wealthy.
    Charles Baggarly, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 29 June 2024
  • After letting the birds go hungry overnight, the team gave them a chance to complete mental tests that provided food as a reward.
    John Timmer, Ars Technica, 14 Sep. 2023
  • The adorable moment a Labrador made sure her favorite toy didn’t go hungry by feeding it some of her food has melted hearts online.
    Alyce Collins, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Oct. 2025
  • Thus far, the researchers have found, participants have been less likely to get sick or go hungry, and more likely to start a business.
    Megan Greenwell, Washington Post, 24 Oct. 2022
  • Katz Asher saved her own small portions of food — pita with spreadable cheese and spiced rice with meat — so that her daughters wouldn’t go hungry.
    Doha Madani, NBC News, 18 Dec. 2023
  • Even early birds may go hungry as 2021 holiday shopping poised to be a challenge.
    Bryan Schott, The Salt Lake Tribune, 20 Oct. 2021
  • Groups on the front line of the humanitarian crisis say that means people will go hungry and will be sleeping on sidewalks.
    Lauren Villagran, USA TODAY, 13 May 2023
  • The people of America don’t want to see their neighbors go hungry, lose their homes or be sick without health insurance.
    Chicago Tribune, 30 Jan. 2026
  • These words also bring to mind the people who give so generously of their time, food and money to see that no one in our county ever needs to go hungry.
    Hermine Saunders, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 14 Nov. 2020

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