How to Use starve in a Sentence

starve

verb
Definition of starvenext
  • They left him to starve out in the desert.
  • It was clear that the dog had been starved.
  • You don't have to starve yourself to lose weight.
  • Without food they would starve.
  • They tried to starve their enemies into submission.
  • The virus may invade the brain, or starve it of oxygen.
    — Eliza MacKintosh, CNN, 2 June 2020
  • At first, the team assumed the wolves would eat the deer and move on—or starve and perish.
    — Doug Johnson, Ars Technica, 26 Jan. 2023
  • The actor had six weeks to learn to play Chopin and to starve himself.
    — Anne Thompson, IndieWire, 16 Dec. 2024
  • There is this man who’s about to starve himself to death.
    — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 3 Feb. 2021
  • But since 2018, eight of the animals have died — three of whom starved, the group said.
    — Brendan Rascius, Miami Herald, 16 May 2024
  • He was then left alone in the woods to starve when the devil paid him a visit.
    — Samantha Highfill, EW.com, 18 July 2022
  • Even then, if all the prairie dogs have died, ferrets will starve.
    — Elizabeth Miller/undark, Popular Science, 11 Jan. 2020
  • So the manatees have to make that choice to stay warm or starve to death in that process.
    — Amy Green, orlandosentinel.com, 10 Nov. 2021
  • When the snows came, the sheep went down to their traditional range and starved.
    — Jack O’Connor, Outdoor Life, 4 Sep. 2024
  • The coalition had laid siege, hoping to starve the fighters out.
    — New York Times, 13 Nov. 2021
  • Some critics then said the measure would cause people to starve in the streets.
    — Arkansas Online, 2 July 2021
  • If the people closest to the top eat most of the food, then the prisoners near the bottom will starve.
    — Stacey Grant, Seventeen, 18 Apr. 2023
  • It could be ordered to starve itself healthy and it could be made to wait for help.
    — Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 17 Apr. 2020
  • When the prey in an area has been eaten, predators must move or starve.
    — John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 20 Dec. 2020
  • The Mi’kmaq, who had lived here for thousands of years, brought the sick and starving colonists both food and their ways of healing.
    — Melanie Stetson Freeman, The Christian Science Monitor, 26 Nov. 2024
  • There are kids who don’t have money for food and are starving.
    — Dp Opinion, The Denver Post, 27 Dec. 2019
  • His people are starving, bread is scarce, and all that can be had is fish.
    — Lauren Morgan, EW.com, 22 July 2024
  • In a hushed famine ward, starving babies fight for life.
    — Declan Walsh Ivor Prickett, New York Times, 5 June 2024
  • The coup leaders are now trying to starve Mr. Bazoum to death while holding him hostage.
    — Mamadou Kiari Liman-Tinguiri, WSJ, 13 Aug. 2023
  • They are beaten, they are tortured, they are raped, they are shot, hanged, and starved.
    — David Faris, Newsweek, 4 Nov. 2024
  • There he was starved, beaten and put to work as a slave laborer.
    — Susan Farrell, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 May 2023
  • Their goal is to starve Russian forces of supplies while closing in on them.
    — Daniel Michaels, WSJ, 3 Sep. 2022
  • Refugees in these other places are starving or have no clothes.
    — Rory Fleming, CNN, 18 July 2024
  • Stranded in the hills, nearly starving, Omar plucked some red berries from a shrub.
    — Bronwen Everill, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 June 2024
  • The same communal conceit that nearly starved the Pilgrims destroyed lives in the Soviet Union and led to mass starvation in China.
    — John Stossel, Orange County Register, 28 Nov. 2024

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