famine

How To Use famine In A Sentence

• A notice posted on the chapel of Carrigtwohill, calling one of those meetings, warned such as absented themselves that they would be marked men, as there was famine in the parish, and they should have food or blood. The History of the Great Irish Famine of 1847 (3rd ed.) (1902) With Notices of Earlier Irish Famines
• In a market economy it is as easy to fall as to rise, but in periods of scarcity and famine, easier to survive within such a system than outside it.
• The year 1998 marked the bicentenary of the publication of the famous Essay on the Principle of Population by Thomas Malthus, in which he argued that the population of a region would always grow until checked by famine, pestilence or war.
• For decades Kalahandi has been synonymous with droughts, famines, starvation and poverty.
• War, famine and oppression have forced people in the region to flee from their homes.
• For example, warring factions often induce drought and famine through the use of scorched-earth tactics.
• It may be that the determination with which I exterminate any flies that enter my house is causing famine in the spider population.
• The goddesse of warre, called Bellona, had these thre handmaids ever attendynge on her: BLOOD, FIRE, and FAMINE, which thre damosels be of that force and strength that every one of them alone is able and sufficient to torment and afflict a proud prince; and they all joyned together are of puissance to destroy the most populous country and most richest region of the world. Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook
• The cause of famine, consequently, is not an inadequacy of food.
• The government has pledged itself to send aid to the famine victims.