How to Use starve in a Sentence

starve

verb

• They left him to starve out in the desert.
• It was clear that the dog had been starved.
• You don't have to starve yourself to lose weight.
• Without food they would starve.
• They tried to starve their enemies into submission.
• The virus may invade the brain, or starve it of oxygen.
  — Eliza MacKintosh, CNN, 2 June 2020
• In the Tamil Eelam, no one would starve, steal, or rape.
  — Longreads, 22 May 2018
• At first, the team assumed the wolves would eat the deer and move on—or starve and perish.
  — Doug Johnson, Ars Technica, 26 Jan. 2023
• The actor had six weeks to learn to play Chopin and to starve himself.
  — Anne Thompson, IndieWire, 16 Dec. 2024
• There is this man who’s about to starve himself to death.
  — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 3 Feb. 2021
• But since 2018, eight of the animals have died — three of whom starved, the group said.
  — Brendan Rascius, Miami Herald, 16 May 2024
• If the layer of thatch is ½ inch thick or thicker, in can starve the lawn.
  — Joseph Truini, Popular Mechanics, 8 July 2019
• For these, men starved themselves to death in hunger strikes.
  — Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 10 Feb. 2018
• He was then left alone in the woods to starve when the devil paid him a visit.
  — Samantha Highfill, EW.com, 18 July 2022
• With the stroke of a pen, Roy Garret could let the whole island city starve.
  — Martin Vassolo, Sun-Sentinel.com, 17 Jan. 2018
• Even then, if all the prairie dogs have died, ferrets will starve.
  — Elizabeth Miller/undark, Popular Science, 11 Jan. 2020
• So the manatees have to make that choice to stay warm or starve to death in that process.
  — Amy Green, orlandosentinel.com, 10 Nov. 2021
• How can anyone turn away from the plight of a starving child?
  — Letters To The Editor, The Orlando Sentinel, 29 May 2025
• When the snows came, the sheep went down to their traditional range and starved.
  — Jack O’Connor, Outdoor Life, 4 Sep. 2024
• The coalition had laid siege, hoping to starve the fighters out.
  — New York Times, 13 Nov. 2021
• Crews stripped or burned brush in areas near homes in an effort to starve the blaze.
  — CBS News, 16 Dec. 2017
• And yet something compelled her to cut, and to starve herself, and to drink.
  — Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 6 Apr. 2018
• Some critics then said the measure would cause people to starve in the streets.
  — Arkansas Online, 2 July 2021
• If the people closest to the top eat most of the food, then the prisoners near the bottom will starve.
  — Stacey Grant, Seventeen, 18 Apr. 2023
• It could be ordered to starve itself healthy and it could be made to wait for help.
  — Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 17 Apr. 2020
• When the prey in an area has been eaten, predators must move or starve.
  — John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 20 Dec. 2020
• Longhorns past and present have been championship-starved for a while now.
  — Nick Moyle, ExpressNews.com, 16 Sep. 2019
• The Mi’kmaq, who had lived here for thousands of years, brought the sick and starving colonists both food and their ways of healing.
  — Melanie Stetson Freeman, The Christian Science Monitor, 26 Nov. 2024
• The manatees that rely on the seagrass for food are, in turn, starving — dying at such a high rate that state scientists have given up on attempts to necropsy most of the emaciated corpses.
  — Orlando Sentinel Editorial Board, The Orlando Sentinel, 13 Aug. 2025
• That vision is now unfolding as mass hunger engulfs the Gaza Strip, and images of starving children crumble American support for Israel.
  — Franklin Foer, The Atlantic, 4 Aug. 2025