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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.
  • They would not give me a pinch of flour even if I starved to death.
  • 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
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  • During this time Louis XIV was in power and royalty lived in ridiculous comforts while French commoners starved.
  • Clouds gather, sometimes developing into a cyclone but will a water-starved Chennai see its tanks, lakes, wells and reservoirs full this year?
  • 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.
  • He manages to arrest his fall by grabbing ‘the last outlying knot of starved herbage ere the rock appeared in all its bareness’.
  • People in this town starved, several buildings were bombed and crime soared because you had to steal to eat.
  • 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.
  • And being starved of carbon dioxide obviously compounds the problem. Eating the Sun: How Plants Power the Planet
  • The engine was starved of fuel
  • In a surprising role, Hoffman hits the screen with tongue blazing as a neurotic, sexually ambiguous and sex-starved underground mobster named Mr. King.
  • the family was starved and ragged
  • 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
  • And in the thirties we had the Depression, when people damn near starved in both the US and the UK.
  • The electricity industry is not the only one to have been starved of investment.
  • And the ban will stay in place as long as the coastal strip is starved of much needed rain.
  • 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!"
  • Industry is being starved of technical expertise.
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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.
  • What if Germany's U-boats had won the Battle of the Atlantic and starved Britain into submission?
  • Researchers think the body works best if starved for short periods because food was scarce for our caveman ancestors. The Sun
  • 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
  • It looked pretty but the plot development concerning the demented sex-starved soldiers didn't ring true for me at all.
  • For a business and investment world starved of good news, this seems almost too good to be true.
  • People starved of sleep start to lose their concentration and may hallucinate.
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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.
  • 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
  • And being starved of carbon dioxide obviously compounds the problem. Eating the Sun: How Plants Power the Planet
  • 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.
  • 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'
  • He was handsome too, if you liked the tall, lean, half-starved look. YELLOW BIRD
  • Perhaps some of them thought they befriended me for charity's sake, because I was a starved waif from the slums. The Promised Land
  • His brother, meanwhile, had starved to death, trapped in his wheelchair in a mountain of trash and accessible only via a network of tunnels.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Their work had an oracular or prophetic immediacy for a civilian population generally starved of real news about the war.
  • Mortar shells pummelled the starved earth and bullets zinged through the sky.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • 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
  • "I wonder if all we have done is create a nation of half-starved beggars," he says.
  • 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
  • Determination of the puromycin dose: Puromycin was used at 100 g/ml on wild-type starved cultures.
  • [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
  • 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
  • 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?
  • Always seeking and finding the right poacher's positions, but starved of the right supply. Times, Sunday Times
  • 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
  • Then he tried to force his half-starved cabayo through a marshy area. Fire The Sky
  • Public infrastructure is starved of funds to justify Private Public Partnerships.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • 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
  • The starved child's belly protuberated
  • 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
  • Those that continue to rely solely on government funding may find themselves starved of money. Times, Sunday Times
  • 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
  • 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.
  • Parkinson's disease attacks and destroys these nerve cells, meaning the brain is starved of dopamine.
  • 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
  • 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.
  • 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!
  • 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.
  • 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?
  • 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
  • Is he going to think I'm some kind of kinky, sex - starved, divorcee?
  • Again, we could have blockaded and starved them out but that was not necessary.
  • Their work had an oracular or prophetic immediacy for a civilian population generally starved of real news about the war.
  • “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
  • Many fail, crushed by competition, starved by high costs or strangled by burdensome regulations. "
  • This apparition turns out to be real - Ghost has been bullwhipped and starved.
  • 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
  • The frontier station was starved for food and water.
  • 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
  • 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
  • All this was very nourishing, not to say stimulating, to the starved soul of a proletary. The Price
  • Researchers think the body works best if starved for short periods because food was scarce for our caveman ancestors. The Sun
  • Like animals starved of food in winter they will put the more expensive sections into hibernation and keep on performing. Times, Sunday Times
  • 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
  • Wavell believed that he was being starved of the necessary reinforcements which he believed he needed and he resigned in February 1942.
  • 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
  • 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.
  • This is acceptable to Nozick since untalented people would have starved anyway had the land remained unowned.
  • So is all of this media attention just summertime fodder for news-starved journalists?
  • In prison they were starved and deprived of sleep.
  • 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
  • Always seeking and finding the right poacher's positions, but starved of the right supply. Times, Sunday Times
  • 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.
  • But this is endemic, unfortunately, we're in a situation where council houses have been starved of funds for years.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • They torched all buildings except the food stores so that the Romans could not say they were starved out.
  • David was starved of oxygen during birth at Peterborough Hospital in 1979 and suffered cerebral palsy.
  • I felt starved of intelligent conversation.
  • "Downtown has been starved for something like this, " he says, describing his eponymous restaurant.
  • 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
  • The funniest scene in the film has her bartering with her sex-starved boyfriend.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • They starved together, Minna helped his career, they separated, he dallied with other women, they tried again, they gave up.
  • The choking triggered a cardiac arrest and her brain had been starved of oxygen. The Sun
  • Any person abruptly starved shows alterations in intermediary metabolism of protein, carbohydrate, and fat.
  • Nobody starved, nobody even went hungry for a day, unless by choice in the fasting month of Ramadan. KARA KUSH
  • 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
  • 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
  • Many of the prisoners looked half starved.
  • To us poorly equipped and half-starved rebels it was a revelation.
  • 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?
  • And what kind of shape will they be in when they stumble out of the wilderness with their half-starved cabayos? Fire The Sky
  • 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
  • To date, three of Jasmuheen's followers have starved to death.
  • She refused food and literally starved herself to death.
  • 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.
  • Like the diarist, the other two men were sickly, and they seemingly starved after their applications for welfare were rejected.
  • 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
  • Any tick up in interest rates spells relief for income-starved investors who have their nest eggs locked up in certificates of deposit.
  • The growth was funded at subpar levels, barely juicy enough to tempt the cash-starved universities.
  • 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
  • I don't want the Royce Reflection to look like a half-starved, overworked waif. DESERT RAIN
  • We are awash with hedge funds while we are starved of early stage and growth investment. Times, Sunday Times
  • Some reindeer have starved and females often give birth to unusually small young. Times, Sunday Times
  • Her own mother had starved to death but her father had not been imprisoned. Times, Sunday Times
  • 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?
  • But I think the term starved for attention is accurate. CNN Transcript Feb 22, 2007
  • 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.
  • A few of the more starved prisoners shuddered with the sudden change in temperature for a while before growing accustomed to it.
  • She refused food and literally starved herself to death.
  • For this was a place of harsh fluorescent tubes and naked bulbs; a place starved of any real glimpse of the sun. In God's Country: travels in the Bible belt, USA.
  • In 1869, a 12-year-old called Sarah Jacob starved to death in a Welsh farmhouse, under the eye of doctors and nurses who were watching her around the clock.
  • They starved the prisoners
  • They arrived to find a rundown overcrowded health centre starved of resources.
  • And being starved of carbon dioxide obviously compounds the problem. Eating the Sun: How Plants Power the Planet
  • Not many superstars would have done it this way: over summer, with marriage number three recently on the rocks, the mother-of-four embarked on a search via Twitter for a "sex-starved man" to end her vividly-described relationships with fruit. Another tacky divorce, another album full of promise – nothing compares to Sinéad
  • Or will she abandon her cherished ‘life of the mind’ to become one with the sex-starved, beer-starved, and nihilism-starved in order to be liked, fit in, and perhaps even loved?
  • I found survivors, twenty-three children, half-starved, huddled in closets and basements, hiding.
  • His face was just a little pale and he was thin; nowhere close to looking starved, but he was thinner than he should be.
  • The choking triggered a cardiac arrest and her brain had been starved of oxygen. The Sun
  • It's amazing how many people seem to think I'm just starved for companionship and have oodles of free time to kill.
  • In water-starved Bangalore, lakes on its outskirts are not just neglected but turn prime property for land sharks.
  • Mullan speaks about his children with affection, something he was starved of by his own father, Charles.
  • Parkinson's disease attacks and destroys these nerve cells, meaning the brain is starved of dopamine.
  • The mere sound of the word ‘monsoon’ conjures up magical images of heavy rain rejuvenating and reviving a starved, parched and barren land.
  • There is also a sobering running assumption that Jessica, as a woman of what the French call a certain age, is starved for love and easily hornswoggled by any handsome young man who cozies up to her.
  • Further investigation revealed that the bird was blind, not to mention half-starved.
  • But the truth is that the ISS is really only half-grown -- stunted -- starved into a crippled half-adult form. ISS Is Starting to Look Like Freedom - NASA Watch
  • His London life was equally disastrous. he made a start with his stock-in-trade, was constantly on the move, in dread of being distrained for rent; half starved, and in a sorry plight. James Catnach, Ballad-monger, Part 1
  • She grew up being teased for her plumpness, starved and binged and wept her way through adolescence.
  • The danger is that the Tralee hospital will be starved of investment and, by implication, be downgraded by stealth over a period of time.
  • His drum solos brought on much applause from an audience obviously starved for the New Orleans ragtime style music.
  • Under the scorching sun, she looked half-starved, exhausted.
  • Public housing has been starved of funds by successive federal and state governments.
  • Multiple wives are attractive to the sex-starved too. The Volokh Conspiracy » Faisal Shahzad Allegedly Admits to Attempted Times Square Bombing
  • A distinguished foreign visitor, France's Prince Napoleon, inspected both armies and reported that the rebels numbered about 60 000 and were "ragged, dirty and half-starved."
  • Six days later, scraped, bruised, and half-starved, they found help in a small village thirty miles away.
  • ‘But he had a beautiful nature and although he had nearly starved to death we felt he was recoverable,’ Ms Shields said.
  • What struck me was the genuine enjoyment of the day, the health of the hounds (hunting hounds are starved before chasing a fox, and get badly injured) and the lack of cruelty involved.
  • Since the car park was closed to give way to the planned development of the $300 million complex, visitors to San Fernando have been starved for parking and played cat-and-mouse with the police wrecker on a daily basis.
  • Any tissue starved of oxygen increases its carbon dioxide production and the lungs compensate by deep and sighing respirations.
  • Two Australian explorers, Burke and Wills, starved to ‘death’ eating Nardoo.
  • I am being fed, groomed and clothed properly, so do not think I am being starved or abused.
  • Kramer could submit what seemed to the information - starved Germans to peer direct into the Allies'minds.
  • They were being starved of funds at a time when the private health system was being built up by the government.
  • There was a risk the brain might be starved of oxygen.
  • We are heading for a crisis, with cash-starved councils forced to cut back on vital community services.
  • I was starved for conversation and thrilled to have the company.
  • The intelligent, genuinely-Scientific, American knew well in advance of Copenhagen that so many bureaucrats congregating in one mercilessly-policed place was never going to be other than a heavily-disguised tyrranical-power world-money grab by Uber-power-starved Bureaucrats and the always-Under-funded Banksters. Holocaust Deniers, Global Warming Deniers, Chris Wallace: Any Difference?
  • Fourth place might not seem that glorious, but for a country obsessed with soccer and starved for positive role models and good news, it was reason enough to celebrate euphorically. Oscar Pocasangre: Beach Soccer Hits El Salvador, Changing Lives Of Local Fishermen And Coffee Pickers
  • While the commission holds more meetings about capturing the narrative of Scottish life (whatever that means), artists are being starved of funds.
  • The fact is that, even as we engage in this desperate struggle to conserve a dying language, other parts of our culture, affecting far more people, are being starved of funds.
  • So Bingham and the club's booze-swilling, sex-starved trustee Pamela (Twyford) quickly have to come up with a replacement. Theater review: 'Fox on the Fairway' at Signature Theatre
  • His implication is that therefore they deserved to be mistreated - starved, beaten, flayed alive - but the key point of those who object to torture is that no-one deserves to be treated like that.
  • Their midfield never gained enough of the ball during the game and their forwards, starved of possession, were outfought by a resolute defence when the ball did arrive.
  • 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
  • Of cozeners, that haunt this occupation, that they cannot well tell how to live one by another, but as he jested in the Comedy of Clocks, they were so many, [2027] major pars populi arida reptant fame, they are almost starved a great part of them, and ready to devour their fellows, Anatomy of Melancholy
  • As I prepare to share with you these woes, I overhear the latest news, via the news or l'info: near Grenoble, a 10-month-old baby was found starved to death in her berceau. French Word-A-Day:
  • There was a risk the brain might be starved of oxygen.
  • At the same time, we all know children from affluent families who are starved for moral and ethical guidance.
  • Inn, any day before Saturday, at four precisely, when you will find none of your half-starved, long-limbed bundles of bones, which you call poultry at the table-d'hôte, but a right Chitty-gong fowl! St. Ronan's Well
  • Disease spread rapidly among the half starved and half clothed paupers.
  • Poor Mr. Petersen must be half-starved if he thinks lutefisk is delicious. The Trouble With May Amelia
  • On that same day, Anna learned that, after being sent to Siberia by the Soviets, her parents had starved to death.
  • If the accused would neither submit to trial nor abjure the realm after 40 days, he was starved into submission.
  • When the cotton crop failed or when prices dropped because it was too abundant, blacks almost literally starved.
  • As a child, she was starved of intellectual nourishment.
  • ‘Moral issues are our bread and butter and we will not be starved out of this activity by such misguided and poorly grounded legislation,’ said Father Norden.
  • From talking to former prisoners in the camps, an obvious conclusion is that they have been starved.
  • Despite this, we are gradually unpicking the fabric of a once prosperous nation and turning it into a starved and enfeebled wasteland.
  • It is ironical that in a country as water starved as ours, that the flush toilet that uses less water is more expensive than one that minimises water use.
  • If they weren't spotted in time by relatives lucky enough to realize they were missing and brave enough to search for them, they starved to death or died of thirst.
  • She saw no more of him till the carrier brought home to her, on the Sunday morning, a starved and pallid object -- 'gone clean silly, an hutched thegither like an owd man o' seventy -- he bein fifty-six by his reet years. ' The History of David Grieve
  • And, in haute couture, the sample sizing has shrunk cruelly until models must be starved to fit. Times, Sunday Times
  • Body damage can cause the loss of menstrual periods, called amenorrhea, because if your body is starved it cannot produce enough hormones to stimulate menstrual periods. EzineArticles

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