How to Use starve to death in a Sentence

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  • 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
  • Millions of people in the Tigray region remain cut off from the world, and some have begun to starve to death.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 18 Aug. 2021
  • But Malama didn’t starve to death or get eaten by a predator.
    — Jonathan Edwards, Washington Post, 8 June 2023
  • Millions of Afghans do not have enough to eat, and a million children could starve to death this winter.
    — New York Times, 30 Dec. 2021
  • Climate change, supply chain chaos, and now this war — in six months’ time, poor people will starve to death.
    — Washington Post, 7 Apr. 2022
  • Hunger pangs come from our brains, wired to crave nourishment so our bodies don’t starve to death.
    — Lizz Schumer, Good Housekeeping, 10 June 2021
  • Except Biden made the charge even more lurid by alleging that Trump had let children starve to death.
    — The Editors, National Review, 25 Mar. 2021
  • The bacteria break down the walls of the stomach and intestines, so an elk can starve to death with a belly full of alfalfa.
    — oregonlive, 29 Jan. 2022
  • For the past year, the plight of manatees has been high on the commission’s agenda, as loss of seagrass to pollution caused a record number to starve to death.
    — David Fleshler, Sun Sentinel, 15 Apr. 2022
  • The unanswered question remains however, what is causing these seabirds to starve to death?
    — Davis Hovey, Anchorage Daily News, 31 Aug. 2021
  • Without enough light, plants draw on sugar reserves to meet survival needs and can slowly starve to death, Pennisi says.
    — Leslie Nemo, Discover Magazine, 21 Aug. 2020
  • Some starve to death after being abandoned by smugglers.
    — Ray Sanchez, CNN, 6 Mar. 2021
  • In the 1970s, the world will undergo famines — hundreds of millions of people are going to starve to death in spite of any crash programs embarked upon now.
    — Kevin D. Williamson, National Review, 17 Mar. 2022
  • The stress from high temperatures can cause coral to expel its algae and slowly starve to death, which leads it to become a ghostly white.
    — Victoria Sayo Turner, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 July 2023
  • Unable to move for four days and determined not to starve to death, the teenager survived by drinking his own urine, according to news agencies.
    — Ziad Jaber, NBC News, 10 Feb. 2023
  • Check Your Numbers Early-stage startups, especially those that bootstrap, can starve to death for lack of cash flow.
    — Expert Panel®, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2023
  • Some even starve to death because their digestive systems become blocked.
    — Delger Erdenesanaa, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Aug. 2023
  • As a result, bats that use up their winter stores before spring either starve to death or leave their caves early in what becomes a vain search for food in the unwelcoming, bug-less cold.
    — Geoffrey Giller, Discover Magazine, 21 July 2018
  • Realizing she's been left to starve to death, the rage comes, followed by the tears, followed by hallucinations of birds and flickering lights and her daughter's voice.
    — Sara Netzley, EW.com, 9 Mar. 2023
  • Animals that fill their guts with plastics eventually starve to death.
    — Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 26 June 2023
  • As a result, some elderly people chose to starve to death in hopes that whatever meager supplies were thereby saved would allow younger people to live.
    — Melissa Chadburn, The New York Review of Books, 27 Aug. 2020
  • The corals appear white after ejecting their colorful partners and ultimately can starve to death.
    — Washington Post, 7 Nov. 2021
  • Colonists drove scores of people into the nearby Kalahari Desert, where they were left to starve to death; German troops also constructed concentration camps where survivors were forced into enslaved labor and often died of exhaustion.
    — Nora McGreevy, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 June 2021
  • Without an ample seagrass supply, manatees can become malnourished and eventually starve to death.
    — Scottie Andrew, CNN, 12 July 2021

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