How to Use starve to death in a Sentence
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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
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But Louis is saved, which means the coven buries him in a coffin of rocks to starve to death.
—Rebecca Alter, Vulture, 23 June 2024
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Hunger pangs come from our brains, wired to crave nourishment so our bodies don’t starve to death.
—Lizz Schumer, Good Housekeeping, 10 June 2021
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But Malama didn’t starve to death or get eaten by a predator.
—Jonathan Edwards, Washington Post, 8 June 2023
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Tensions run high as food runs short and hundreds of thousands of people starve to death.
—The Arizona Republic, 20 Mar. 2024
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The piglets were being denied food and water and would have been allowed to starve to death.
—CBS News, 5 Mar. 2025
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Climate change, supply chain chaos, and now this war — in six months’ time, poor people will starve to death.
—Washington Post, 7 Apr. 2022
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Charlotte didn’t end up as a shark’s lunch and didn’t starve to death floating helplessly in the ocean.
—Ars Technica, 21 Dec. 2024
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Millions of Afghans do not have enough to eat, and a million children could starve to death this winter.
—New York Times, 30 Dec. 2021
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Some even starve to death because their digestive systems become blocked.
—Delger Erdenesanaa, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Aug. 2023
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Infected bats burn off vital energy stores and either freeze or starve to death.
—Benji Jones, Vox, 5 Sep. 2024
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The unanswered question remains however, what is causing these seabirds to starve to death?
—Davis Hovey, Anchorage Daily News, 31 Aug. 2021
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Millions of people in the Tigray region remain cut off from the world, and some have begun to starve to death.
—BostonGlobe.com, 18 Aug. 2021
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Animals that fill their guts with plastics eventually starve to death.
—Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 26 June 2023
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Hundreds of millions of people would starve to death regardless of any crash programs launched to prevent it.
—Brian C. Keegan, The Conversation, 26 Mar. 2026
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The bacteria break down the walls of the stomach and intestines, so an elk can starve to death with a belly full of alfalfa.
—oregonlive, 29 Jan. 2022
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Without enough light, plants draw on sugar reserves to meet survival needs and can slowly starve to death, Pennisi says.
—Leslie Nemo, Discover Magazine, 21 Aug. 2020
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The stress from high temperatures can cause coral to expel its algae and slowly starve to death, which leads it to become a ghostly white.
—Victoria Sayo Turner, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 July 2023
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One of Mackenzie’s former followers described having to let his daughter starve to death.
—Alexis Okeowo, The New Yorker, 19 Aug. 2024
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If ice-free periods last too long, polar bears will stop reproducing and eventually starve to death.
—Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 June 2024
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Unable to move for four days and determined not to starve to death, the teenager survived by drinking his own urine, according to news agencies.
—Ziad Jaber, NBC News, 10 Feb. 2023
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The corals appear white after ejecting their colorful partners and ultimately can starve to death.
—Washington Post, 7 Nov. 2021
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For the past year, the plight of manatees has been high on the commission’s agenda, as loss of seagrass to pollution caused a record number to starve to death.
—David Fleshler, Sun Sentinel, 15 Apr. 2022
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As a result, some elderly people chose to starve to death in hopes that whatever meager supplies were thereby saved would allow younger people to live.
—Melissa Chadburn, The New York Review of Books, 27 Aug. 2020
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As a result, bats that use up their winter stores before spring either starve to death or leave their caves early in what becomes a vain search for food in the unwelcoming, bug-less cold.
—Geoffrey Giller, Discover Magazine, 21 July 2018
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Check Your Numbers Early-stage startups, especially those that bootstrap, can starve to death for lack of cash flow.
—Expert Panel®, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2023
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Realizing she's been left to starve to death, the rage comes, followed by the tears, followed by hallucinations of birds and flickering lights and her daughter's voice.
—Sara Netzley, EW.com, 9 Mar. 2023
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In the 1970s, the world will undergo famines — hundreds of millions of people are going to starve to death in spite of any crash programs embarked upon now.
—Kevin D. Williamson, National Review, 17 Mar. 2022
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Without an ample seagrass supply, manatees can become malnourished and eventually starve to death.
—Scottie Andrew, CNN, 12 July 2021
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According to former followers and the parliamentary report, Mackenzie eventually told his people that the world was ending, and that everyone would soon die; the only way to insure a place in Heaven was to starve to death.
—Alexis Okeowo, The New Yorker, 19 Aug. 2024
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