How to Use famine in a Sentence

famine

noun

• The famine affected half the continent.
• In the decades following the famine, the Irish spread to every corner of the globe.
  — Diego Lasarte, Quartz, 16 Mar. 2023
• The one that killed more than a million of its own people in a famine.
  — Danielle Pletka, National Review, 12 Feb. 2022
• Much of Gaza is at risk of famine in the next several months.
  — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 3 Jan. 2024
• It’s been feast or famine for the Lions defense of late.
  — Eddie Brown, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Nov. 2023
• Needless to say, there is no famine of glamour to speak of.
  — Roxanne Adamiyatt, Town & Country, 9 Sep. 2022
• There was a famine that prompted the Lakota chief to send scouts to hunt for food.
  — Saleen Martin, USA TODAY, 1 July 2024
• This aid is far from sufficient — the risk of famine looms.
  — Alexander Smith, NBC News, 30 Oct. 2024
• The amount that is raised can determine feast or famine.
  — Mike Desimone and Jeff Jenssen, Forbes, 10 Feb. 2023
• The goal was to raise money for the famine that was unfolding at that time in Ethiopia.
  — Michela Moscufo, ABC News, 4 Aug. 2022
• Teach them to hunt, fish, gather and process food, then to prepare for times of famine and war.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 17 Mar. 2022
• Since the pandemic, it’s been feast or famine at the box office.
  — Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 22 Aug. 2022
• Speaking of which, there is a literal famine in Gaza caused by the war.
  — Abid Rahman, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Apr. 2024
• The first, of course, was the song’s reason for being: to save the lives of Ethiopians victimized by famine.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 29 Jan. 2024
• Is the threat of famine, protests and distress from higher food prices behind us?
  — Julia Horowitz, CNN, 26 July 2022
• But climate change is another key factor that has the Horn of Africa on the verge of famine.
  — Ryan Bergeron, CNN, 3 Aug. 2022
• The forced implementation of this idea led to years of famine.
  — Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 7 June 2022
• The resulting shortages and price increases raised the threat of famine in parts of the Middle East and Africa.
  — Matthew Mpoke Bigg, BostonGlobe.com, 17 May 2023
• Years of fighting have ground into a bloody stalemate and pushed the Arab world's poorest nation to the brink of famine.
  — Isabel Debre, ajc, 7 July 2022
• The media tends to transmit clichéd images of the African continent, such as famine and war.
  — Martin Dale, Variety, 12 June 2022
• Our great-great-grandparents may have come to the New World to escape famines in Europe.
  — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 24 July 2023
• Black 47 is an Irish-American rock band, its name being a reference to the year of the Irish famine.
  — Selena Barrientos, Good Housekeeping, 22 Jan. 2023
• The song raised more than $63 million for Ethiopian famine relief.
  — Jennifer Frederick, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 Nov. 2024
• Tens of millions of Chinese died in the resulting famine.
  — Eyck Freymann, WSJ, 28 Apr. 2022
• The abundance of the digital age can feel like famine, its speed and churn like stagnation.
  — Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 13 Dec. 2022
• It's been mostly feast but some famine for Jefferson this year, who's on pace for a league-best 1,860 yards.
  — Nate Davis, USA TODAY, 11 Oct. 2022
• The turning point came the following year with the Live Aid concert to raise money for famine relief in Africa.
  — Meg James, Los Angeles Times, 9 May 2023
• In the boy’s dream sequences, one time the village looked prosperous, but in the next there are millions of people on the march away from a famine.
  — Patrick Frater, Variety, 17 Feb. 2024
• Gaza, slightly more than twice the size of the city of Washington and home to 2.3 million people, has found itself on the brink of famine.
  — Jon Gambrell, The Christian Science Monitor, 30 Apr. 2024
• The Iron Age ushered in a 300-year drought which contributed to crop shortages and widespread famine.
  — Popular Science, 18 Oct. 2023

Last Updated: 7 Dec 2024