How to Use starvation in a Sentence

starvation

noun

• The famine brought mass starvation.
• Millions of people face starvation every day.
• Heat stress that lasts more than a few weeks can lead the coral to die of starvation.
  — Julia Musto, Fox News, 11 May 2022
• While in the starvation bunker, Kolbe led the others in prayer.
  — Christine Rousselle, Fox News, 8 Dec. 2024
• Amid this void, the north is stalked by mass starvation.
  — Mairav Zonszein, TIME, 4 Apr. 2024
• The irony of course is that foreign meddlers are the ones who have caused the starvation.
  — Marlene Daut, The Conversation, 26 July 2021
• By the time relief ships reached Jamestown, the colonists were near starvation.
  — David Kindy, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 July 2020
• The fear is there will be a second wave of koala deaths, from starvation.
  — David Maurice Smith, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 June 2020
• The cramps are signs of oxygen starvation in the muscles.
  — Ricardo Nuila, The New Yorker, 26 June 2020
• Four million Bangladeshi workers were out of a job and on the verge of starvation.
  — Emily Farra, Vogue, 21 Nov. 2020
• In 2011, failed rains led to a wave of starvation that led to a national tragedy.
  — Faustine Ngila, Quartz, 6 Feb. 2023
• And one of the questions is whether the households have lost a child because of starvation.
  — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 2 May 2024
• And drought in East Africa has left millions at risk of starvation.
  — Justin Worland, Time, 28 Oct. 2022
• Experts say the likely cause of the die off is starvation.
  — Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 June 2021
• The men came within 97 miles of the pole but decided to turn back out of fear of starvation.
  — Livia Gershon, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 May 2021
• Riyadh and Abu Dhabi have clout to jointly force an end to the starvation tactics.
  — Alex De Waal, Foreign Affairs, 17 June 2024
• The war has claimed thousands of lives and led to mass starvation and outbreaks of disease in the country.
  — Mohammed Tawfeeq, CNN, 9 Apr. 2020
• The growths also could get in the way of their ability to see, eat or drink, which could lead to starvation.
  — Chloe Gonzales, USA TODAY, 15 July 2022
• Tens of millions of people in Africa or in the Middle East will turn out to be on the brink of starvation — because of the West.
  — Catherine Belton, Washington Post, 3 June 2022
• In most villages, dozens were killed by the bombings or died of starvation.
  — New York Times, 16 Mar. 2021
• Many have died of starvation under the siege, Bakheit and others said.
  — Samy Magdy, Los Angeles Times, 18 May 2025
• The legacy of starvation was never far from the surface.
  — Smithsonian Magazine, 25 Jan. 2024
• Disease and starvation lead the entire colony to the brink of extinction.
  — Lorraine Berry, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Sep. 2023
• The charges include the use of starvation as a method of warfare and attacks on civilians.
  — Dan Perry, Newsweek, 26 Nov. 2024
• The ancient dramas of starvation and riches were to be taken off the boards.
  — John Dos Passos, National Review, 28 Sep. 2020
• Food is scarce and the city is erupting with violence fueled by the fear of starvation.
  — Jourdain Searles, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Sep. 2023
• The war has leveled vast swaths of the tiny enclave and pushed a quarter of residents to starvation.
  — Matthew Lee, arkansasonline.com, 7 Feb. 2024
• Put simply, hunger and starvation are already here and kicking in the door.
  — Ian Pannell, ABC News, 15 Dec. 2021
• That means at least one in five people or households severely lack food and face starvation and destitution.
  — Edith M. Lederer, Los Angeles Times, 5 June 2025
• In recent weeks, Israel has come under growing pressure to end the war in Gaza as the enclave faces widespread starvation amid a severe shortage of humanitarian aid.
  — CNN Money, 26 May 2025