famished

How To Use famished In A Sentence

• He beat at them continually with his whip, but they were so famished that they took no notice whatever.
• Famished for power and perks, they pour out of the law schools and the centers for the study of this and that to cop the boodle when their side wins.
• Hammam, sent thither for each of them a suit of apparel such as befitted a merchant worth a thousand. 494 When they had washed and donned each his suit, I carried them to my house where, seeing them well nigh famished, I set a tray of food before them and ate with them, caressing them and comforting them. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
• They, the tired and famished ones, bring with them their stock-in-trade, their cigar fuzees, their boot blackers and shiners, and their humble single brushes with which to ‘brush you down, sir,’ for a penny.
• Jacob and his brother Esau were pretty tight-knit, until one day Esau returns from a long trip, famished.
• Starving men may think much about food, but so do gluttons; the gorged, as well as the famished, like titillations.
• And into my face I strove to throw all the wan wistfulness of famished and ingenuous youth of mendicancy. Confession
• Trivedy said 5000 famished people had congregated next to a church in the coastal town of Nova Mambone.
• The famished old folk could only swallow their tears.
• Ashton while we do this go into the kitchen and eat something, you look famished.