How To Use Starve In A Sentence
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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.
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They would not give me a pinch of flour even if I starved to death.
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Why starve herself to look thin in pictures that she does not appear to enjoy having taken?
Times, Sunday Times
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HOW dare councils whine about being starved of funds while blowing millions on undies using taxpayer-funded credit cards?
The Sun
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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.
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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
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During this time Louis XIV was in power and royalty lived in ridiculous comforts while French commoners starved.
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Those who work deserve to eat; those who do not work deserve to starve.
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Clouds gather, sometimes developing into a cyclone but will a water-starved Chennai see its tanks, lakes, wells and reservoirs full this year?
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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
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Yet their slide towards obscurity - Liverpool supporters have been starved of silverware - has not only been halted, but looks, on the face of it, to be making a swift volte-face.
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Truth, however gently expressed, cuts deep; cockroaches do not deter starvelings from the soup.
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He manages to arrest his fall by grabbing ‘the last outlying knot of starved herbage ere the rock appeared in all its bareness’.
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People in this town starved, several buildings were bombed and crime soared because you had to steal to eat.
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By the time we got back I was starved, so tea'd and toasted, then headed out into town to retrieve my car from the multi-story.
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And being starved of carbon dioxide obviously compounds the problem.
Eating the Sun: How Plants Power the Planet
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They may, indeed, I deny not, marry if they will, and have free choice, some of them; but in the meantime their case is desperate, Lupum auribus tenent, they hold a wolf by the ears, they must either burn or starve.
Anatomy of Melancholy
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The engine was starved of fuel
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But there were so many chances against them in all these cases, such as storms, to overset and founder them; rains and cold, to benumb and perish their limbs; contrary winds, to keep them out and starve them; that it must have been next to miraculous if they had escaped.
The Further Adventures Of Robinson Crusoe
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In a surprising role, Hoffman hits the screen with tongue blazing as a neurotic, sexually ambiguous and sex-starved underground mobster named Mr. King.
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Bold knaves thrive without one grain of sense . But good men starve for want of impudence.
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the family was starved and ragged
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Like the good Lord James Douglas, we had liefer hear the lark sing over moor and down, with Chicot, than listen to the starved-mouse squeak in the bouge of Therese Raquin, with M. Zola.
Essays in Little
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And in the thirties we had the Depression, when people damn near starved in both the US and the UK.
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You have built up a huge property empire by buying from wretched people who had to sell or starve.
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Feed a cold and starve a fever.
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The electricity industry is not the only one to have been starved of investment.
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And the ban will stay in place as long as the coastal strip is starved of much needed rain.
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You could see the eroded gaps when someone underbought a book and it sold out, selling in fitful gaps whenever a stock-starved store managed to get their hands on a few copies.
When "I've Heard Of Them!" Becomes "They've Heard Of Me!"
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Industry is being starved of technical expertise.
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Regime change against dictators who let their people starve is now considered to be unacceptable.
Africa
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feet a year - because of storms, rising seas and man-made features, such as jetties, that have starved the coast of any new sand.
Chron.com Chronicle
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There's Valerie, looking like a fierce little referee in a striped tank; Kristin, still looking sex-starved in a leather dress and bedhead; and Nicholas, looking like Ellen DeGeneres with a five o'clock shadow!
Una LaMarche: Project Runway Finale Part Two Recap
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They thought he was an old has-been, that the fever had fuddled his wits, that his weeks of near-starvation had starved his brain-tissue into comatose stasis.
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What if Germany's U-boats had won the Battle of the Atlantic and starved Britain into submission?
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Researchers think the body works best if starved for short periods because food was scarce for our caveman ancestors.
The Sun
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The case of the prosecution and prosecutors is that the couple intentionally and deliberately starved their child to death and used the term vegan to escape prosecution.
Archive 2007-05-01
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He plays the hypercritic on himself, and starves his genius to death from a needless apprehension of a plethora.
Lectures on the English Poets Delivered at the Surrey Institution
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It looked pretty but the plot development concerning the demented sex-starved soldiers didn't ring true for me at all.
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Compare some of these to what's said this political season: ⢠"You starveling, you eel skin, you bull's pizzle!" ⢠"You stock-fish, you bow case!
Ken Adelman: Bard Blog: Candidate Insults
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She may binge, purge, or starve.
Eating Problems: A Feminist Psychoanalytic Treatment Model
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For a business and investment world starved of good news, this seems almost too good to be true.
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People starved of sleep start to lose their concentration and may hallucinate.
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Despite hard times in the jazz-starved '70s, and a brief stint into the poetic ramblings of Van Morrison, the label slid gracefully into modern jazz with albums from Norah Jones and Herbie Hancock. of Music
Paste Magazine
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In daylight, a lion could starve waiting for a perfect ambush.
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The scrannel pipes of those who have worn themselves out by their moral fastings, till they have become flat and pale like starved vermin infesting a long-deserted bed, will never reach my ear.
The Home and the World
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The small black and tan cross-bred dog had been left to starve and was so emaciated he was close to death.
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They are looking at tolling existing sections of the national road network in Dublin, Cork, Limerick and Galway in order to raise revenue for the cash-starved, roads building programme.
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Punitive expeditions destroyed crops and stores and lifted cattle, leaving villagers to starve as a salutary lesson for resistance or revolt.
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I hope if I'm trapped in a vegetive state there is someone to protect my life and not be starved to death.
On death row - BatesLine
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And being starved of carbon dioxide obviously compounds the problem.
Eating the Sun: How Plants Power the Planet
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In the novel, scenes of daily hardship alternate with those of stronger historical forces colliding: officers of the secret police rounding up suspected counter-revolutionaries as the city's inhabitants starve; ragged soldiers fighting without adequate ammunition or food; officials studying the files of suspects and reading anonymous denunciations through the night in the only heated building in the city; ambitious party bureaucrats eliminating their enemies; idealistic revolutionaries explaining away gross injustices as "historical necessity.
The Revolutionary Novelist
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These trends are bound to continue into 2001, with more people around the world being displaced by floods, endangered by wild weather and starved by droughts.
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She may binge, purge, or starve.
Eating Problems: A Feminist Psychoanalytic Treatment Model
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True, it does seem a tad insensitive when his people are left to starve.
Times, Sunday Times
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I don't think that a society can be encultured to the point where they are willing to law-abidingly starve to death or die of exposure.
Nasty, Brutish Looting, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
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Those Camden years of mine, only option was saveloy, I almost starved.
Bruce Robinson: 'I'm just going to take my liver for a wash'
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He was handsome too, if you liked the tall, lean, half-starved look.
YELLOW BIRD
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Perhaps some of them thought they befriended me for charity's sake, because I was a starved waif from the slums.
The Promised Land
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_Gradely_ (graithly) means willingly, meekly or decently; _clem_ means starve; _sithee_ is see you or look you; _clogs_ are shoes with wooden soles and leather uppers, and _dungarees_, garments of coarse cotton cloth rather like overalls.
The Atlantic Book of Modern Plays
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His brother, meanwhile, had starved to death, trapped in his wheelchair in a mountain of trash and accessible only via a network of tunnels.
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But it was the Indian scholars themselves making the fuss, expressing concern that research institutes back in Bharat were and are being starved of much-needed funds.
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Concentration is adversely affected by smoking with the gradual blocking up of the arteries and veins with gunge from cigarettes that starve the brain of oxygen.
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More often than not we went hungry anyway, but then they attempted to starve us out.
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Our Charlie proved the most sought-after subject on the web after scurrilous allegations prompted a fact-starved UK public to scour the Net for tasty titbits.
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Several narratives intertwine as Lovric charts Marcella's tortuous, Minguillo-instigated progress through crippledom, a lunatic asylum and eventually a convent, including that of the fanatical nun Sor Loreta, who mortifies her body and starves herself to attain holiness while being as vile as possible to the less saintly nuns around her.
Home
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Their work had an oracular or prophetic immediacy for a civilian population generally starved of real news about the war.
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Mortar shells pummelled the starved earth and bullets zinged through the sky.
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Everything has followed-on ‘inevitably’: the firelight, the curé's physical placement in the setting, our knowledge that he is a sick man, unable to digest food and semi-starved - everything.
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When the Kulaks resisted giving up their land and their property to be redistributed to "the people", Stalin starved and then slaughtered them by the millions.
Tax Cuts for the Rich, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
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Cuba was beleaguered by the Americans under General Shafter; the forts had been destroyed by Admirals Schley and Sampson; General Linares, in command there, had been wounded and placed _hors de combat_; the large force of Spanish troops within the walls was well armed and munitioned, but being half-starved, the _morale_ of the rank-and-file was at a low ebb, and General Toral, who succeeded General Linares, capitulated.
The Philippine Islands
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"I wonder if all we have done is create a nation of half-starved beggars," he says.
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Remember a time, not that long ago, when the flippety flop of a jandal signalled the arrival of a beer-swilling, ciggie-smoking, style-starved yobbo?
Stuff.co.nz - Stuff
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Tyler did you starve yourself today, is that why you pigged out on 4 cookies and 2 pieces of ice cream cake?
This is why I will always have the gut
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Determination of the puromycin dose: Puromycin was used at 100 g/ml on wild-type starved cultures.
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[I] t is a long stretch to compare a half-starved bird that kills all her nestlings to a well-nourished woman who just delivered a baby and gets depressed two days later.
An Evolutionary Model of Depression, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
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The people of Chiboba village, some 65 km from Petauke boma complained to their MP that they would starve to death if the food did not reach them in time.
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She was reduced to the last degree of poverty; her friends held themselves aloof, disgusted at what they termed her culpable weakness; she and her children suffered from cold and hunger; and during her subsequent illness she and they must have starved and frozen but for the public charities, that would not let anyone in our midst perish from want of necessary food and fuel.
Ishmael In the Depths
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Not that I condone this sort of activity but I believe the Romans used to say: "a man with a sword is a man who will never starve".
Guns for Gift Cards?
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Sealing food in an airtight jar starves the bacteria of oxygen and they are unable to reproduce.
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That being said the question that now needs be asked: are these investments in emerging markets impacting the ability of these Wall Street banks and bank holding companies to service the capital starved from the American economy?
Raymond J. Learsy: Is Wall Street Zapping America Again?
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The redhead Susanna, scarlet-lipped, rose-flushed, and wrinkle-necked, contrasts with the starveling look of the foremost elder.
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Always seeking and finding the right poacher's positions, but starved of the right supply.
Times, Sunday Times
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There I was, a professional baseball player, a title revered by so many, finding out how pathetic I really am because I feel like I should be treated special while folks just like me starve to death.
Chatting with Dirk Hayhurst
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My face was stung to severe pain by the high-driving spindrift, and I had a feeling that the wind was blowing the cobwebs out of my sleep-starved brain.
CHAPTER XII
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Then he tried to force his half-starved cabayo through a marshy area.
Fire The Sky
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He would starve if I did not feed him bits of old olive loaf.
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Public infrastructure is starved of funds to justify Private Public Partnerships.
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They bail out airlines and insurance companies, but let defrauded employees starve.
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The proposal is seen as the only option left to bail out the cash - starved Highlands and Islands Fire Service which is short of equipment such as ladders, breathing apparatus, cutting equipment, fireproof clothing and pumps.
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Meanwhile the wives and children of these belligerents would have starved had it not been for the datto, who, notwithstanding the difference in their faith, looked after them all, until the discomfited warriors returned to more peaceful pursuits.
A Woman's Journey through the Philippines On a Cable Ship that Linked Together the Strange Lands Seen En Route
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I never more lively beheld the starved characters of Dante [III. j] in any living face; an aruspex might have read a lecture upon him without exenteration, his flesh being so consumed, that he might, in a manner, have discerned his bowels without opening of him; so that to be carried, sexta cervice [III. k] to the grave, was but a civil unnecessity; and the complements of the coffin might outweigh the subject of it.
Religio Medici, Hydriotaphia, and the Letter to a Friend
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The poor starve while the rich feast.
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So why would our own starveling country want two more of these vagrant landing-strips, whatever the asking price may turn out to be?
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• "You starveling, you eel skin, you bull's pizzle!
Ken Adelman: Bard Blog: Candidate Insults
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The starved child's belly protuberated
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One day they sold him an old grey horse starved of life.
Lost Voices of the Edwardians: 19011910 in the words of the Men & Women Who Were There
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Those that continue to rely solely on government funding may find themselves starved of money.
Times, Sunday Times
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Big clumps can become starved at the centre and it is worth dividing them in autumn so that the individual bulbs can find more nourishment.
Times, Sunday Times
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In habits it is gregarious, and is usually seen in small herds, but herds numbering several hundreds or even a thousand are occasionally met with on the stony, desolate plateaus of Southern Patagonia; but the huanaco is able to thrive and grow fat where almost any other herbivore would starve.
The Naturalist in La Plata
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Several of these half-starved creatures had their heads thrust out over the low pound wall, as if to solicit the interference of passengers, while others, resigned to their fate, stood in drooping postures in the centre of the enclosure, quite chop-fallen.
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While the grass grows the horse (or steed) starves.
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Parkinson's disease attacks and destroys these nerve cells, meaning the brain is starved of dopamine.
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Reason that is disengaged and tightly regulated would starve other human faculties, they believed.
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While the grass grows the horse (or steed) starves.
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But there is a worse thing in store for the bold man who habituates himself to eat a dozen dishes at once: when there are but few dishes served, out of pure habit he will feel himself half starved, whilst his neighbour, accustomed to send his sop down by help of a single relish, will feast merrily, be the dishes never so few.
Memorabilia
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Yet the sun starved goons are still sitting out, shivering, trying to drain the last goodness from the day and avoid facing up to the fact that they have an exam in the morning.
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The Rangers ask Matt Harrison, a 26-year-old with less of a household name to bring it home for the title starved Rangers.
Cardinals win World Series - as it happened!
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Taking these drugs is quite a complicated procedure, which often involves taking a combination of 10 or more drugs at the correct time of day, and not on a belly starved of food or water.
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Biter kitteh is starved for attenshum from himz humin
Now dat i has ur attenshun - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
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The absence of widespread usage of FOSS has, consequently, restricted the growth of software in Indic language, and this in turn, has starved the spread of computer to larger Indian commercial and home segments.
Archive 2007-05-10
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"We can't just let him starve to death, " is a common refrain heard from family members.
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Is he going to think I'm some kind of kinky, sex - starved, divorcee?
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Better to starve, if necessary, in a plastic suburban mall than go back to South Chicago in chains.
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Again, we could have blockaded and starved them out but that was not necessary.
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Their work had an oracular or prophetic immediacy for a civilian population generally starved of real news about the war.
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“Along a road in Matabeleland, barefoot children stuff their pockets with corn kernels that have blown off a truck as if the brownish bits, good only for animal feed in normal times, were gold coins,” reads this New York Times story on a stark situation in which “the half-starved haunt the once bountiful landscape of Zimbabwe, where a recent United Nations survey found that 7 in 10 people had eaten either nothing or only a single meal the day before.”
2009 February 02 « Scavenging
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Many fail, crushed by competition, starved by high costs or strangled by burdensome regulations. "
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Just as dangerous, just as self-centred, as in its small way is that vegetative organism the volvox, which, when food is scarce and the race is threatened, against possible need of insemination, creates separate husband cells to starve in clusters, while ` she 'hogs all the food-supply for the production of eggs.
She Stands Accused
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This apparition turns out to be real - Ghost has been bullwhipped and starved.
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At a peak pretor population there are not enough elk left to feed all those predators, predators starve.
On Wolves And The Future Of Hunting
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So I won't dismiss Palahniuk's new book -- a "novel" consisting of 23 "short stories" linked by "poems," a thin "narrative," and the conceit that this whole shebang is the work of the flesh - and fame-starved prisoners at a ghoulish writers 'colony -- as mere crap.
May 2005
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The frontier station was starved for food and water.
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Sinead O'Connor is "in desperate need of a very sweet sex-starved man" and she wants everyone to know it.
Sinead O'Connor Seeks a "Very Sweet Sex-Starved Man" Online
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But his extended spell off the field had not starved him of his predatory instincts because he found the corner with a crisp half-volley.
Times, Sunday Times
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All this was very nourishing, not to say stimulating, to the starved soul of a proletary.
The Price
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Just as Bligh was willing and eager to flog, keelhaul and starve any human being who stood in the way of his career, so our bourgeoisie will flog, keelhaul and starve the national interest "" with every slum-dweller, rickshawpuller and day-labourer as victim "" in the promotion of their own self-interest.
Cap'n Blimey
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Researchers think the body works best if starved for short periods because food was scarce for our caveman ancestors.
The Sun
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Like animals starved of food in winter they will put the more expensive sections into hibernation and keep on performing.
Times, Sunday Times
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Seeing children starve is terrible, I guess we all saw those images of the starving kids in Africa.
Matthew Yglesias » Relative Prices Blogging
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Having occasion to move it on the twentyfourth, I peeped in and found half my caterpillars out and starved, proving that they had been hatched at least thirty-six hours or longer; half the others so feeble they soon became inactive, and the remainder survived and pupated.
Moths of the Limberlost
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They would rather starve to death than accept the fate of slavery.
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Now, if public support dwindles with viewership, PBS could slowly starve.
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Wavell believed that he was being starved of the necessary reinforcements which he believed he needed and he resigned in February 1942.
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One day they sold him an old grey horse starved of life.
Lost Voices of the Edwardians: 19011910 in the words of the Men & Women Who Were There
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Not a duff track among them, honestly, and the thing didn't even make it past 20 minutes, so naturally I was starved for more.
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He would gorge on Thai food after leaving his secret subterranean family to starve on meagre rations.
The Sun
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This is acceptable to Nozick since untalented people would have starved anyway had the land remained unowned.
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Seeing children starve is terrible, I guess we all saw those images f the starving kids in Africa.
Matthew Yglesias » Krugman on Europe
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That peripheral vasoconstriction of the tiny vessels close to the surface basically starves the cells of oxygen.
Simple Skin Beauty
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The small black and tan cross-bred dog had been left to starve and was so emaciated he was close to death.
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So is all of this media attention just summertime fodder for news-starved journalists?
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You have built up a huge property empire by buying from wretched people who had to sell or starve.
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In prison they were starved and deprived of sleep.
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“We starve if we wait for that,” Bolivar said, plunking a potful of sowbelly and beans down on the rough table.
The Lonesome Dove Series
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The following footage, taken from the star's 1954 USO tour to South Korea, shows Monroe singing several songs from the film version of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes before it ends with a snippet of her singing "Do It Again" to a crowd of sex-starved servicemen.
George Heymont: Once More With Feeling
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Always seeking and finding the right poacher's positions, but starved of the right supply.
Times, Sunday Times
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During his travels, he encounters a smorgasbord of characters, from a siren-ish den of sex-starved farmer's daughters to a mysterious woodland healer to a lonely Queen Amidala wielding a shotgun.
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But this is endemic, unfortunately, we're in a situation where council houses have been starved of funds for years.
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The animals were left to starve to death.
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Overall, the performance may be slowly improving - but the improvements are being made by the people who deliver the services on the front line and they are now being starved of funds.
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An even higher dose killed all of the well-fed mice from a different genetic strain but none of the starved mice, and again the mice that fasted regained their weight.
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Especially in that the seasons have been proper to bring up and set forward other more hasty and indifferent plants, whereby this of knowledge bath been starved and overgrown; for in the descent of times always there hath been somewhat else in reign and reputation, which hath generally aliened and diverted wits and labours from that employment.
Valerius Terminus: of the interpretation of Nature
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I'm referring to the kind of gross inequity that dictates that some people should starve and die while others burn money for heat.
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They torched all buildings except the food stores so that the Romans could not say they were starved out.
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David was starved of oxygen during birth at Peterborough Hospital in 1979 and suffered cerebral palsy.
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I felt starved of intelligent conversation.
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"Downtown has been starved for something like this, " he says, describing his eponymous restaurant.
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Sea on the west, more sailors deserted from the whale-ships to the north, and they all starved together in right brotherly fashion.
The Gold Hunters of the North
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The funniest scene in the film has her bartering with her sex-starved boyfriend.
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Let the English mill workers starve because they can't get our cotton but never , never strike a blow for slavery.
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It focused on the human material that has become Houellebecq's trademark subject: the love lives of sex-starved, bored, middle-aged mid-level bureaucrats.
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In 1994 a judge ruled that prisoners who were mentally competent were free to starve themselves to death.
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The nuclear submarine lobby, known in the Navy as the ‘Black Mafia’, went ruthlessly for Trident, even though it might mean that the rest of the Navy was starved of funds.
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They starved together, Minna helped his career, they separated, he dallied with other women, they tried again, they gave up.
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The choking triggered a cardiac arrest and her brain had been starved of oxygen.
The Sun
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Any person abruptly starved shows alterations in intermediary metabolism of protein, carbohydrate, and fat.
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Nobody starved, nobody even went hungry for a day, unless by choice in the fasting month of Ramadan.
KARA KUSH
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I could have made it 'grungier' but then I'd have starved to death ... you get the idea, that should be enough:) for starting the whole Zombie theme off, and to
Soccer Blogs - latest posts
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Fair ladies, you drop manna in the way Of starved people] [Shakespeare is not more exact in any thing, than in adapting his images with propriety to his speakers; of which he has here given an instance in making the young Jewess call good fortune, _manna_.
Notes to Shakespeare — Volume 01: Comedies
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Many of the prisoners looked half starved.
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To us poorly equipped and half-starved rebels it was a revelation.
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The supposedly sex-starved amico also had to swear eternal fidelity to his mistress and promise never to marry or to leave Italy.
If He Has A Mistress, Why Can't She Have...A Mister?
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And what kind of shape will they be in when they stumble out of the wilderness with their half-starved cabayos?
Fire The Sky
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The poor starve while the rich feast.
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The original in conduct, that is to say, resistiveness to the voice of the herd, will be suppressed by natural selection; the wolf which does not follow the impulses of the herd will be starved; the sheep which does not respond to the flock will be eaten.
Introduction to the Science of Sociology
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Their development is arrested, or they are, from the beginning, poor creatures born of starvelings, and perhaps fated to give birth to pale, sapless beings like themselves.
The Kempton-Wace Letters
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To date, three of Jasmuheen's followers have starved to death.
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She refused food and literally starved herself to death.
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He would cut off his supplies from Naples and Sicily, and starve him and all-his subjects; he would frustrate all his family schemes, he would renounce him, he would unpope him, he would do anything that man and despot could do, should the great shepherd dare to re-admit this lost sheep, and this very black sheep, into the fold of the faithful.
History of the United Netherlands, 1592-94
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What they are are establishmentarian types comfortable with the status quo who don't hate gay people and want their wives and daughters and selves to have access to abortion and accept it more or less as a given that poor people's children probably shouldn't be left to starve in the streets, provided it doesn't cost too much money to feed them and move them inside at least during the winter.
Disproving their liberal bias by giving liberals a wedgie
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At times their flowing, passing, attacking football style was almost mesmeric, and Mowbray and his crew brought long-starved fans back to Easter Road and won many new admirers.
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True, it does seem a tad insensitive when his people are left to starve.
Times, Sunday Times
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Alas, his whole estate and life depended on his hatchet; by his hatchet he earned many a fair penny of the best woodmongers or log-merchants among whom he went a-jobbing; for want of his hatchet he was like to starve; and had death but met with him six days after without a hatchet, the grim fiend would have mowed him down in the twinkling of a bedstaff.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
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Like the diarist, the other two men were sickly, and they seemingly starved after their applications for welfare were rejected.
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Mr. Three per Cent., "said one," this is what you call sporting, is it -- killing starved woodcocks?
Le Morvan, [A District of France,] Its Wild Sports, Vineyards and Forests; with Legends, Antiquities, Rural and Local Sketches
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Any tick up in interest rates spells relief for income-starved investors who have their nest eggs locked up in certificates of deposit.
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The growth was funded at subpar levels, barely juicy enough to tempt the cash-starved universities.
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The only clue as to where the dwarf could have got to was a love-starved weedeater gazing longingly downstream from the battlements.
Archive 2010-06-01
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I don't want the Royce Reflection to look like a half-starved, overworked waif.
DESERT RAIN
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We are awash with hedge funds while we are starved of early stage and growth investment.
Times, Sunday Times
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Some reindeer have starved and females often give birth to unusually small young.
Times, Sunday Times
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Her own mother had starved to death but her father had not been imprisoned.
Times, Sunday Times
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The second he stops at a lava field, Skynet will trade everything it has just to keep him pinned down and sieged up until he starves.
Comic-Con 08: Awesome Terminator Salvation Updates - Rated R?! « FirstShowing.net
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‘Too often, directors starve the creative juices of the actors,’ McDonald explains.
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If someone spends several years in a POW camp being beaten, tortured, starved, threatened with death, having bones broken and never set, having their groins bayonetted and never treated, having their teeth knocked out....then they have the right to talk about that experience, should they survive, all that they want.
How stupid is it for Obama supporters to question the truth of McCain's "cross in the dirt" story?
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But I think the term starved for attention is accurate.
CNN Transcript Feb 22, 2007
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Tamsin plays Fran, a neurotic, sex-starved thirty-something who loves Bernard dearly, but is grateful for the arrival of Manny: somebody else to suffer Bernard's moods.
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Without such systems, pilots who get fire warnings from the cargo hold often must resort to making emergency descents to depressurize the aircraft and try to starve the flames of oxygen.
Plane Fires Prompt Battery Safeguards
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Luz has discovered her appetite and is looking a little less peaky now, a little less like a starveling sparrow.
TROPIC OF NIGHT
