How to Use starved for in a Sentence

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• Count that as a win on a team starved for those sorts of things.
  — Bryce Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Sep. 2023
• The gender space has been starved for resources for all of time.
  — Samantha Barry, Glamour, 13 Dec. 2023
• Yet the whole thing feels still feels starved for creative oxygen.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 28 Feb. 2025
• In a moment when so many people are starved for good news, the videos struck a chord.
  — Stephanie Ganz, Parents, 3 Mar. 2026
• Block a return, and your system becomes starved for air.
  — Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 29 Jan. 2026
• Colorado has been starved for more offense when the top line or power play isn’t on the ice.
  — Corey Masisak, The Denver Post, 27 Feb. 2025
• But deep down, she was starved for deeper material to work with.
  — Michael Cuby, Them., 31 Mar. 2025
• Others had been abandoned and starved for days and died soon after arrival.
  — Choe Sang-Hun, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Sep. 2023
• Right now, we're starved for stories with real emotional weight.
  — Mark Weinstein, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 Apr. 2025
• For a team that is starved for center depth since forever just give the kid an extension.
  — Michael Russo, The Athletic, 4 Jan. 2025
• Liu arrives at an ideal moment in a nation starved for lightness.
  — Marcus Thompson Ii, New York Times, 11 Mar. 2026
• That serenely smug type of approach leaves our desire to care starved for nutrients.
  — Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times, 12 Aug. 2023
• This tournament could be heaven for hockey nerds who have been starved for best-on-best at this level.
  — Corey Masisak, The Denver Post, 10 Feb. 2025
• And there’s more good news for struggling theater owners starved for compelling content.
  — Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 6 Mar. 2023
• The Mammoth were often starved for secondary offense last year.
  — James Mirtle, New York Times, 8 Oct. 2025
• The receivership has been starved for funds in part because the buildings get little rental income.
  — Liam Dillon, Los Angeles Times, 4 Dec. 2023
• By the climax, the viewer was as starved for catharsis as Maximus himself.
  — A.a. Dowd, Vulture, 21 Nov. 2024
• Russia is also the world’s largest exporter of wheat, meaning the country is not starved for farmland.
  — Howard Koplowitz | [email protected], al, 24 Feb. 2022
• And who’s more starved for excitement these days than the Blackhawks and Blackhawks fans?
  — Mark Lazerus, New York Times, 13 Sep. 2025
• An excessively deep layer of mulch can leave the soil waterlogged and starved for oxygen.
  — Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 14 Oct. 2025
• To pause is to give the gift of full presence — a rare and precious offering in a world starved for genuine connection.
  — Chris Schembra, Rolling Stone, 6 Feb. 2025
• Every flavorful morsel hugged my insides, which had been starved for the comfort of all things familiar.
  — Washington Post, 4 Jan. 2022
• People are starved for connection, and Power Play is a space where women can find that.
  — Jameelah Nasheed, Essence, 23 May 2025
• In workplaces starved for human connection, these are the oxygen that keeps people going.
  — Nell Derick Debevoise, Forbes.com, 30 Apr. 2025
• Some of those students have been starved for an opportunity like this, Akey and Manuszak said.
  — Daniel Wu, Washington Post, 14 Aug. 2023
• Was the Met this starved for money to end up restricting access to less well-to-do sections of our society?
  — Shivaram Rajgopal, Forbes, 10 Sep. 2024
• The early lesson, though, is that the burgeoning depth the franchise assembled is starved for time and touches.
  — Bryce Miller Columnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Apr. 2021
• Your very own paper, The New York Times, said that after two hours, you’re starved for silence.
  — Zack Sharf, Variety, 12 Mar. 2024
• Much of the luxury industry has been starved for good news that could bring it a glimmer of hope about what 2024 will hold.
  — Prarthana Prakash, Fortune Europe, 19 Jan. 2024
• The Mavericks were so starved for ballhandling last season, Flagg played heavy minutes at point guard.
  — Christian Clark, New York Times, 20 July 2026