How To Use Starving In A Sentence

We had a gam one day, on this voyage, with a Yankee whale-ship, and a first-rate gam it was, for, as the Yankee had gammed three days before with another English ship, we got a lot of news second-hand; and, as we had not seen a new face for many months, we felt towards those Yankees like brothers, and swallowed all they had to tell us like men starving for news. Fighting the Whales
Raving, starving herself, addicted to Seconal and Dexedrine, Tippy makes a dramatic transformation from beautiful to mean.
She proves this to herself with a huge binge, a purge, or more starving. Eating Problems: A Feminist Psychoanalytic Treatment Model
We have known a male mierkat so assiduous in feeding young that were quite unrelated to himself, taking to them every morsel of food given him, that we have been compelled to shut him up in a room alone when feeding him, to prevent his starving himself to death: the male mierkat thus exhibiting exactly those psychic qualities which are generally regarded as peculiarly feminine; the females, on the other hand, being far more pugnacious towards each other than are the males. Woman and Labour
Sending computers won't do much at all if people are illiterate never mind *computer illiterate* and starving. Let the train wreck begin

After a long playoff drought, Blackhawks fans starving for success got, well, nothing.
Maybe it's not too much to say that our delight also makes us repent of the ways we fail to share our bountiful and abundant food when many are starving.
The whole of this season 's harvest had also been requisitioned, so that by the end of the year the people would be starving. Times, Sunday Times
Father's a railroad president and many times millionnaire, but the son's starving in 'Frisco, editing an anarchist sheet for twenty-five a month. Chapter 36
Like so many failed expeditions before them, Sir John and his men would be fleeing for their lives, dragging longboats and whalers and hastily clabbered-together sledges across the rotten ice, praying for open leads and then cursing them when the sledges fell through the ice and the contrary winds blew the heavy boats back on the pack ice, leads that meant days and nights of rowing for the starving men. The Terror
She wished that when she opened her eyes, there would be a plate of steaming waffles next to her… because she was ravenously starving.
Later his teams carried desperately needed supplies for the starving diggers at Milparinka.
She was starving, the empty rumbling in her stomach was witness to that, and she hurt so bad she felt like vomiting.
Tons of internationally donated food was distributed to the starving peasants.
The distended bellies of the starving cows
“Weel, then, ye maun ken we’re starving, as I said before, and have been mair days than ane; and the Major has sworn that he expects relief daily, and that he will not gie ower the house to the enemy till we have eaten up his auld boots, — and they are unco thick in the soles, as ye may weel mind, forby being teugh in the upper-leather. Old Mortality
Inadequate payments and arbitrary refusals to honor bills by government and private industry are financially starving the health care system to the detriment of us all.
Most soldiers they met were a sorry sight, injured, half-starving and desperate to surrender.
This is the filthy, squalid bedroom where five children were left slowly starving to death by their parents, while they got drunk and watched television downstairs.
She proves this to herself with a huge binge, a purge, or more starving. Eating Problems: A Feminist Psychoanalytic Treatment Model
Hey, luv, don't pass a starving man without throwing a crumb. CASCADES - THE DAY OF THE DEAD
Annie Oakley, a survivor of battery, whipping, torture, starving, freezing, and repeated, brutal rape at the hands of a foster father, became internationally famous for her skill as a markswoman.
One of the more unusual recruits to the unit was Tramp, a mongrel dog found starving and very ill in a puddle under the yacht.
The refugees were a pathetic sight - starving, frightened and cold.
The well-worn cliche of the writer starving in the garret is so much more picturesque than the bitter reality of living in poverty with a child. Boing Boing: May 19, 2002 - May 25, 2002 Archives
While some were executed, others, malnourished and starving, were forced to carry out labour beyond their physical capabilities.
I'm exhausted and starving hungry. Times, Sunday Times
January 20th, 2010 12:57 am ET got about 100 people starving to death in bertin, carrefour area any ideas on how to get food to them? Congressman buys one-way ticket to Haiti
The starving children were a pathetic sight.
Your starving eyes and allbeplastered neck you stole my heart, O gluepot. Ulysses
It makes users feel light-headed by starving them of oxygen. The Sun
I ate a bunch of each that night for dinner because I was starving since I was a tardo and hadn't eaten all day. TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com
Being part of that community is knowing what a "ceilidh" is, knowing not only the history of Ireland but of our own people in this country, most of them descendants of starving millions who fled to this country to avoid death from hunger. LJWorld.com stories: News
All because I am hungry and want to eat dinner and when I mentioned food my boyfriend looked at me beggingly with big starving puppy eyes. Scorpi07 Diary Entry
Hardenberg: How can you live knowing that people are starving for want of your help? The Edukators, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
He found them starving in an abandoned dog kennel. The Sun
She was driven by necessity to steal food for her starving children.
He had been handing out alms to starving refugee children.
The Blackfoot is a sworn and determined foe to all white men, and he has often been heard to declare that he would rather hang the scalp of a "pale face" to his girdle, than kill a buffalo to prevent his starving. Townsend Chapter 6
After a female borer lays its eggs on an ash tree, the larvae burrow through the bark and feed on vascular tissue called the phloem, cutting off the tree's supply of nutrients and starving it to death. The Bugs Rescuing the Baseball Bats
I'm not joking, but I could not work out howâ€ "until eventually I stumbled upon my inventory (I'm not even sure how) and finally made him reach the state of" famished "rather than starving. GameSetWatch
Hey, luv, d'you mind if I get those chips out of your hair, only I'm starving. Sheepskin-wearing seating bores get my goat | Harry Pearson
Why, even a Syrian like myself knows that if you had not got your name foisted into that old man's will, you would have been starving by this time, and all your books must have been put up to sale. Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 03
She spent her last years pleading for funds and food for the starving thousands. Christianity Today
His heart ached for the starving homeless.
We've striven mightily to adjust to our dinner guests showing up late, but when the time stretches to 2 or more hours, and food is ready, and we, the hosts, are starving, then it inevitably becomes stressful. Not being on time a high art in Mexico
If the doe was weak and starving, her marrow will be red and fatless. Grouse Diary Entry
There is some rumor of Federal supporters trying to block the rail lines into Manassas Junction and starving us out, but so far all it has been is rumor.
It warns us in advance when starving, flyblown African children are about to be pictured in their death throes as we tuck into tea-time plates groaning with fresh food.
The declaration or establishment of a blockade is prohibited if: (a) it has the sole purpose of starving the civilian population or denying it other objects essential for its survival; or (b) the damage to the civilian population is, or may be expected to be, excessive in relation to the concrete and direct military advantage anticipated from the blockade. The Volokh Conspiracy » “Free Gaza” Activists’ Version of the Ship Incident
Then have we a civil war to phlebotomize us every year, and to prevent our population from starving for want of food — and for the same purpose we have the Plague proposing us a visit, the best of all recipes for thinning a land, and converting younger brothers into elder ones. The Abbot
Early in his quest to save India's wild tigers, he had heard about a site in the Himalayas of Nepal where Buddha is said to have given his life to feed a starving tigress and her cubs.
We are hoping for romance and adventure, and certainly, starving is going to do wonders for my weight.
The Red Army requisitioned all foodstuff it could lay its hands on for its own use, as well as for shipping it back home - without any regard for the starving local population.
In the story, the central character, Nazar Chagataev, sets out from Moscow to rescue the starving nomadic nation of his own birthplace and bring it safe back to the bosom of the Party.
Vernon and I were starving, our bodies tense; then relaxing as our tongues swirled around the mozzarella cucina and the hot antipasto, our breathing quickening as we devoured the clams oreganato, stuffed mushrooms, eggplant rollantini, and artichoke hearts. A Kettle of Vultures
Hey, luv, d'you mind if I get those chips out of your hair, only I'm starving. Sheepskin-wearing seating bores get my goat | Harry Pearson
While trying to help starving villagers, Yunus met a 21-year-old woman named Sufia Begum, who was burdened by a tiny yet crushing debt, Yunus recalled in his autobiography, "Banker to the Poor.
PS: I learned about the search engine capabilities from a group of starving Pygmies in New Guinea ... Is the blog overrun with ridiculous Questions with even more dumbaxx Answers lately or is it just my imagination?
They were accused of torturing and starving five of their eight adopted children - pulling out toenails, shackling them with chains and shocking them with electrical cords.
You can't stay in the dark for too long. Something inside you starts to fade, and you become like a starving person, crazy-hungry for light. Amy Tan
an appeal to raise money for starving children
It's immoral to be rich while people are starving and homeless.
Seeing children starve is terrible, I guess we all saw those images of the starving kids in Africa. Matthew Yglesias » Relative Prices Blogging
The starving moose will be lured to these safe corridors by deposits of food. Times, Sunday Times
This left the Caucasus unprotected, and the Caucasian and Persian civilians starving after years of war and depravation.
Pictures of starving children have sent many people scurrying to donate money.
In 1970 about 900 million people were starving-perhaps a billion in total. Little wonder warning bells were sounding.
[He'll] be obleeged to bring the shakedown near the fire..to keep her from starving with the cold.
There are so many things to make fun of at Starbucks: people talking on cell phones, annoying kids, the word barista, head lice, the fact there are thirty of you in line paying $3.50 for a cup of coffee while people are starving in Somalia. How To Be Funny
Seeing children starve is terrible, I guess we all saw those images f the starving kids in Africa. Matthew Yglesias » Krugman on Europe
She spent her last years pleading for funds and food for the starving thousands. Christianity Today
This was nothing to do with the scrabbling desperation of a starving people, but a highly ordered, solemn and even reverent religious ritual.
The Sisters also try never to reject anyone in abject poverty, the hungry or starving.
Uterine fibroid embolization is a relatively new treatment that cuts off the blood supply to fibroids, starving them and causing them to shrink. Glenn D. Braunstein, M.D.: For Women of Child-Bearing Age, What to Know About Painful Fibroids
Let's hope that this time he didn't leave a deprived village starving. Times, Sunday Times
Much was seized for food by a starving population, and much became the casualty of unexploded mines and bombs.
If you come to the aid of his starving family and bid him keep for himself fifteen dollars out of the amount he took from you, you may get permission to sleep in the zareeba outside the prison. The Four Feathers
After said party, back at the parents, Andy got really stroppy with me because I wasn't hungry even though he was starving.
Now the man is sick and starving and in dire need of financial help for his upkeep.
The animals still at the zoo were starving and filthy, the zookeepers gone, the zoo stripped of everything from cleaning supplies to toilet flushers.
Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals. He sets them to work, he gives back to them the bare minimum that will prevent them from starving, and the rest he keeps for himself. George Orwell
The same folks blubbering about the reigning obsession with thinness as an insult to fatness are making a disgusting mockery of starving people's plight.
When you compare the UK, America and other rich countries to the Third World where so many people are starving, it's absolutely shocking.
They had no access to water, so their cattle died of thirst, and they in turn were now starving to death.
The drug dissolves clots starving the brain of blood. The Sun
She was liberated in 1945 and trekked back to Poland, still cold and starving but with a one-way ticket to Warsaw.
After a long day, and with our ears buzzing, we were all starving.
Twenty years after images of starving Ethiopian children shocked the world, famine and drought continue to stalk this African nation.
Kitty was brave and forethoughtful, for during the week we were gone she had baked and cooked a large amount of substantial food that would keep us from starving while on our journey. Thirty years a slave : from bondage to freedom : the institution of slavery as seen on the plantation and in the home of the planter,
My brain latched onto the idea like a starving bear mauling a honeycomb. Campfire Stories «
She had to take food parcels from nuns to avoid starving, she said. Times, Sunday Times
She finally called in cops when the starving babysitter came home with a bag of meal leftovers. The Sun
A MISSING property mogul has been found starving and barefoot on a country road eight months after vanishing. The Sun
I'm exhausted and starving hungry. Times, Sunday Times
What a cruel and petty argument for denying food to millions of starving people. The Sun
The Sisters also try never to reject anyone in abject poverty, the hungry or starving.
Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals. He sets them to work, he gives back to them the bare minimum that will prevent them from starving, and the rest he keeps for himself. George Orwell
We need to recognize the humanity of the people who are starving. Secrets of the Soil
She proves this to herself with a huge binge, a purge, or more starving. Eating Problems: A Feminist Psychoanalytic Treatment Model
Your local charity is starving of money but Obama's compaign is overflown with money such that he is spending an insanely amount of money spreading lies about Hillary and debasing the only successful post-war two-term Democratic president. Obama Had 5-1 Cash Advantage At Start Of This Month
Formonths I've read the Jews have been starving out Palastine and denying them food andwater supplies and building on promised palastinian land. Gaza Attacked: Why is Hamas Firing Rockets at Israel?
Emergency food aid for starving families. The Sun
Or whenMichael told Sam he was paying for lunch, and Sam said "you got it Mikey,I’m starving anyway," even though he’d just munched on a gigantic bagof chips and was holding a soda. 'Burn Notice' recap: The trouble with Carla | EW.com
Half the country is starving, and that is a recipe for massive political convulsions.
As everyone knows, that's what a starving African child needs most of all.
I'd never eaten breakfast on weekdays before, and I used to be starving by lunch-time and pig out.
She proves this to herself with a huge binge, a purge, or more starving. Eating Problems: A Feminist Psychoanalytic Treatment Model
In 1896, the British had tried to quell Ndebele resistance in the Matopos by starving them out; Smith's army and police had tried something similar and for the same reasons.
The poor starving little church mice had chewed their way through the bellows of the church organ.
Thinking I might be able to manage a tasty minted lamb sarnie if I chewed on the right hand side of my mouth, I've failed miserably and actually bitten into my lip and bled all over said sarnie… I'm starving!
It wouldn't be so funny to hear just any ordinary grouch complaining about his wife's idiosyncrasies to a starving 6-year-old.
Come on, in this land of plenty, the hunters are not starving; they don't need to kill four or more deer in a weekend, while leaving the potential hunter wondering what all the excitement is all about!! In Their Words: Industry Experts on Why Hunting Is In Decline
There are people starving to death in the world. The Sun
Like many of those who inflict harm on themselves - whether it's cutting, burning, starving or taking overdoses - her problems began in childhood.
His population is starving and he is ignoring the democratic process. The Sun
The naked, starving, unhoused Griffin would, logically, seem to be that way not because of any fatal flaw in his science.
As Auntie Mame so colorfully stated, life is a banquet- and most poor devils are starving to death.
A freak of nature, tests had shown he was immune to the TB virus - probably because not even a starving rat would bite him - and he went through adolescence with upper right arm intact.
What a terrible way to go, starving to death in their millions,’ the Queensland grazier and kangaroo expert said.
Four leprous men were outside the walls of the city and starving to death.
They all make me want to rear up and shout there are starving children in India, but I suspect that their entire lives are based around refuting the relevance of that reminder.
Here Orringer's grasp of fact and circumstance is used to best effect, as she observes the lingering disintegration of each starving and diseased human body and recreates the minute attention devoted to ensuring that so many died with as much suffering aspossible. The Invisible Bridge by Julie Orringer
This hollow-cheeked six-year-old clearly knows what it means to fall asleep on an empty stomach. ‘The worst thing for a father,’ says Ammar in barely a whisper ‘is to see your own children starving.'‘
His fellow starving writers were beginning to attract fame as the 'Beat Generation,' a label Kerouac had invented years earlier during a conversation with fellow novelist John Clellon Holmes. Archive 2007-03-01
It is curious that we who deify the concept of the individual should devalue people, encouraging conformity, starving imagination. THE DEVIL'S OWN WORK
Thou art a master when thou art at home; Nor starving cloisterer, nor novice there.
It was like offering a communion wafer to a starving man: it served the minimal purpose but missed the point entirely. THE CRASH OF HENNINGTON
The children were literally starving.
They could not enjoy such extravagancies while their people were starving in their oil rich homeland.
In some parts of the world, students are going to school every day. It's their normal life. But in other part of the world, we are starving for education... it's like a precious gift. It's like a diamond. Malala Yousafzai
But the reality is that people are left starving with the poorest hit hardest. The Sun
The people were starving, and starving people will revolt. SOMEDAY MY PRINCE
Yet I still found myself trapped in that horrible cycle of starving yourself, binging, vomiting, weighing…
Loved to do scientific journals and dreamed of being an ethologist which is the scientist's equivalent of a starving artist. Margaret Willey: An Interview with the Author
And most of the time I really was grateful I wasn't one of those starving children in Africa Mother told me about whenever I left a pile of hominy on my plate.
The clue to that, I think, is your two sons being about the same age as this young man - just as when I first had a baby, pictures of starving children could haunt me for days in a way they never had before.
Let's eat--I'm starving!
We heard that the city was in ruins and that it was filled with thousands of starving, homeless people.
By 9.15pm we were all starving hungry so rang to find out where it was. The Sun
I'm absolutely starving -- I missed lunch.
The people were starving, and starving people will revolt. SOMEDAY MY PRINCE
The duke's wealth was squeezed from rents and extracted from a starving tenantry.
In looking at food, nutrition, and the perverse phenomenon of overnutrition, many of us have had occasion to notice and cite the fact that worldwide, roughly the same number of people are starving as are overweight. Talking to the Author of ‘Stuffed and Starved’ - Bitten Blog - NYTimes.com
In other words will it lead to Swaraj for the hungry and spiritually starving millions?
I would send him sometimes snipe or golden plover from Kiltartan bog or woodcock from the hazel woods at Coole, hoping to tempt him with something that might better nourish the worn body than the little custard pudding that was used to serve him for his two days 'dinner, because of that "horrible dyspepsia" that often makes those who have been long in prison live starving after their release, mocked with the sight of food. Our Irish Theatre: A Chapter of Autobiography
Cheney is gaming conservatives who, blinded by racism and hared, will believe any lie tossed their way like a starving dog thrown a bone. White House forcefully responds to Cheney
Even though the people in the surrounding villages are starving, the maize will remain uneaten.
Think of the starving children in India!
He had not been starving; he had only been hungry.
He had no time for the romantic notion of the artist starving in a garret.
The lonely student is starving for friendship.
He meant they were godsends to the starving and the homeless.
The ration formulas that the nutritionist at the local co-op formulated is wrong, and is basically starving the animals to death. Second Impressions, Horror Story & more drivel...
Weel, then, ye maun ken we're starving, as I said before, and have been mair days than ane; and the Major has sworn that he expects relief daily, and that he will not gie ower the house to the enemy till we have eaten up his auld boots, -- and they are unco thick in the soles, as ye may weel mind, forby being teugh in the upper-leather. Old Mortality, Complete
The plight of starving people is too awful to think about.
I explain to them the story of Buddha, who was called Siddhartha before his enlightenment, and how, after a cloistered life of luxury, he stepped outside his palace one day and saw an old man, a sick man, a corpse, and a starving man who had rejected the material world. The Memory Palace
In some parts of the world, students are going to school every day. It's their normal life. But in other part of the world, we are starving for education... it's like a precious gift. It's like a diamond. Malala Yousafzai
Feed the starving children in India
By this time I'm starving, so when we go backstage at the restaurant, among the pots and pans and prepping stations, I get quite excited.
She's lonely, and starving for companionship.
Then from the starving cagework city a horde of jerkined dwarfs, my people, with flayers’ knives, running, scaling, hacking in green blubbery whalemeat. Ulysses
Not exactly the archetypical starving writer, is she?
That _tableau_ at the end, of the starving-coastguardsman expiring under the rack, is perfectly awful! Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, October 22, 1892
"Is there any evidence to show that he was starving?" asked one of the jurywomen.
And I agree that starving or dehydrating or just stopping a ventilator is cruel. Defending Your Existence
One cannot bear to see a person in pain or starving, so his sense of sympathy compels him to help that person.
Feed just enough newly-hatched brine shrimp to keep the shrimp from starving, but don't overfeed, as too many brine shrimp saps the oxygen in the water.
Were I starving and without the means to start a fire, I would of course throw a line in the lake and chomp down the result of my fishing. Good Places to Eat
We have people living in cardboard boxes and starving to death and little kids crying out for homes and families and these people are worried about a housefly!!!! I saw that the President got his first "kill" yesterday. The PETA-philes have their undies in a wad.
After nine weeks spent fending for themselves, many animals have died and those that remain are starving, thirsty and vulnerable to disease. Times, Sunday Times
He blustered on about my trespassing gall, how I'd unsettled his half-starving cattle.
Would you eat that, unless you were starving to death in a concentration camp? 2.
We went out for brunch because Libby mentioned she was starving, having only had a nibble of the breakfast Pam's mom had cooked.
Come winter, the grasshopper finds himself starving and begs the ant for help, but the ant instead admonishes him for his improvidence. Henry J. Stern: Tweed Still at It
But don't change him if he is starving hungry - let him feed first and then change him afterwards. A Miscellany of Mother's Wisdom
As dietitians, my colleagues and I use this idea to help clients stop bingeing and purging, starving themselves or dieting.
Only now - after aid - is it possible for them to seriously discuss trade; you can't trade when your people are illiterate, innumerate, diseased and starving.
He found new ways to worship without starving yourself and retold the belief of reincarnation so that people actually understood!
On their last morning, the birds are herded by sheepdogs into a darkened ‘starving pen’ - and from there, they are attracted by the light into boxes with a hatch into the slaughter room.
We found him standing on a table in a saloon, with an old tin lantern in one hand and the school report in the other, haranguing a gang of "corned" miners on the iniquity of squandering the public money on education "when hundreds and hundreds of honest, hard-working men were literally starving for whiskey. Mark Twain`s speeches; with an introduction by William Dean Howells.
At the time of the famine, he made valiant efforts to stop his tenantry starving.
So they have a doubly useful effect in helping you to consume less and not feel starving hungry all the time. Times, Sunday Times
It curbs the urges sufferers have as they swing between gorging on food and starving or vomiting. The Sun
I was only trying to be friendly, the poor little bastards must've been starving if nobody was feeding them.
He flips the brochure round and shows me a horrific black-and-white still of a starving child.
Western charities were galvanized by TV pictures of starving people.
This explains why a car crash is more likely to be considered an event - and consequently to feature in the news - than the ongoing plight of people starving in Sudan.
I was ravenously starving all the time and I have nothing but admiration for people who manage this lifestyle.
The refugees were a pathetic sight - starving, frightened and cold.
Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals. He sets them to work, he gives back to them the bare minimum that will prevent them from starving, and the rest he keeps for himself. George Orwell
She finally called in cops when the starving babysitter came home with a bag of meal leftovers. The Sun
He came out of the surf exhausted and starving and naked.
She's starving herself to try to lose weight.
The concept of aliens being basically starving immigrants on earth and deciding to rebel against the injustice is an amazing setup for a movie. keef this looks incredible! Full Length District 9 Movie Trailer | /Film
Poor mite! You must be starving!
You appreciate someone with a few extra pounds (as opposed to, say, the starving waifs you presented me with?)
The bellies of the starving children are swelling
Thousands of cattle are starving.
I was starving this morning and the complimentary breakfast was much appreciated.

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