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How To Use starve In A Sentence

• The film also stars Jared Leto as Alexander's special boyhood chum, Rosario Dawson as his sex-starved wife, Angelina Jolie as his nagging mother and Val Kilmer as his abusive father.
• They would not give me a pinch of flour even if I starved to death.
• Why starve herself to look thin in pictures that she does not appear to enjoy having taken? Times, Sunday Times
• HOW dare councils whine about being starved of funds while blowing millions on undies using taxpayer-funded credit cards? The Sun
• Letters were piled up behind the door, but no food or drink was found in the flat and it is feared she may have starved to death after becoming too afraid to go outside.
• When I mentioned that I couldn't quite see that it was the lack of thrift, the intemperance, and the depravity of a half-starved child of six that made it work twelve hours every night in a Southern cotton mill, these sisters of Judy O'Grady attacked my private life and called me an "agitator" -- as though that, forsooth, settled the argument. Revolution, and Other Essays
• During this time Louis XIV was in power and royalty lived in ridiculous comforts while French commoners starved.
• Those who work deserve to eat; those who do not work deserve to starve. 
• Clouds gather, sometimes developing into a cyclone but will a water-starved Chennai see its tanks, lakes, wells and reservoirs full this year?
• You'd rather people die than give them health care, you'd rather people starve than give them food, and you'd rather cheat on your wife while stealing tax payers money to go to a foreign country to do it than remain faithful and stay at home doing your job. Obama: 'Act now' on health care