How to Use hunger strike in a Sentence

hunger strike

noun

• She’s on a hunger strike to bring attention to these issues.
  — Elaine Ayala, ExpressNews.com, 28 Jan. 2021
• On Sunday, Wright will end her hunger strike her way, with digs at the mayor and city manager.
  — Elaine Ayala, San Antonio Express-News, 13 Feb. 2021
• Irish republican Bobby Sands leads the inmates of a Northern Irish prison in a hunger strike.
  — Ben Flanagan | [e-mail], al, 17 Mar. 2021
• Some 10 Frenchwomen who are detained in the camps started a hunger strike this week in an effort to put pressure on their government to bring them home.
  — Elian Peltier, New York Times, 26 Feb. 2021
• Hathloul has twice gone on hunger strike -- in protest at her prison conditions, and because she was denied communication with her relatives -- according to her family.
  — Tamara Qiblawi and Kara Fox, CNN, 28 Dec. 2020
• In a little-noted moment, Hillary Clinton, at the time the first lady, met with Sister Ortiz during her hunger strike.
  — New York Times, 20 Feb. 2021
• According to her family, Hathloul has twice gone on hunger strike -- in protest at her prison conditions, and because she was denied communication with her relatives.
  — CNN, 10 Mar. 2021
• There came a time when López went on hunger strike — 28 days.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 18 Oct. 2021
• Like Hunger, this movie is inspired by the 1981 hunger strike at the Maze prison.
  — Marisa Lascala, Good Housekeeping, 13 Jan. 2023
• Soni helped the workers travel to the White House and stage a hunger strike.
  — Sarah Stillman, The New Yorker, 1 Nov. 2021
• Jeschke and six others launched a hunger strike Aug. 30.
  — Karin Laub, ajc, 23 Sep. 2021
• On Tuesday, two weeks into the hunger strike, the group was forced to end it.
  — Washington Post, 3 Nov. 2021
• Nirmal Singh, 42, has been on a hunger strike for 18 days.
  — Sakshi Venkatraman, NBC News, 22 Sep. 2023
• Reznicek, who was two weeks into a hunger strike at the time, welcomed the news.
  — Julia Shipley, Rolling Stone, 26 May 2021
• Some of them had been on a hunger strike since Tuesday to put pressure on the UC.
  — Mathew Miranda, Sacramento Bee, 26 Jan. 2024
• His three-week hunger strike has brought him to what his doctors say from afar could be the brink of death.
  — Kenneth Roth, CNN, 19 Apr. 2021
• Some of the lawmakers are doing a hunger strike for up to five days.
  — James Hibberd, The Hollywood Reporter, 28 Nov. 2023
• Ronaghi is on a hunger strike to protest his arrest on Sept. 24.
  — Miriam Berger, Washington Post, 14 Nov. 2022
• Back in 2016, IIT Kharagpur students went on a hunger strike over such a hike.
  — Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz, 20 July 2022
• He was put on trial twice and died while on a hunger strike in the Soviet prison in 1985.
  — New York Times, 1 July 2022
• Before taking part in the hunger strike, the group discussed the risks, Garcia said.
  — Hannah Demissie, ABC News, 19 Dec. 2021
• The party said Woo has been on a hunger strike for the past 14 days to protest the Japanese discharge plans.
  — Kim Tong-Hyung, BostonGlobe.com, 9 July 2023
• Cynthia Nixon is going on a hunger strike to protest the Israel–Hamas war.
  — James Hibberd, The Hollywood Reporter, 28 Nov. 2023
• Aliy was in the middle of his second week of a hunger strike and spoke with a fleece blanket wrapped around his body.
  — Sean Sirota, Vogue, 4 Nov. 2021
• When hunger strikes, the Mayrose brasserie is open for breakfast and dinner.
  — Christina Liao, Travel + Leisure, 16 June 2023
• Sunrise is reaching out to members of Congress to join them in the hunger strike.
  — Kate Aronoff, The New Republic, 19 Oct. 2021
• One man was taken to solitary to pressure him to end his hunger strike.
  — María Inés Taracena, The New Republic, 12 Apr. 2023
• Brail later staged an 11-day hunger strike in a plane tree near the Eiffel Tower.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 18 July 2022
• In November 1914, prisoners went on a hunger strike to protest the food.
  — Richard Selcer, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 13 July 2024
• Some have taken extreme measures to make their voices heard, with locals demonstrating against excessive tourism in the Spanish Canary Islands calling for a hunger strike back in April.
  — Billy Stockwell, CNN, 27 July 2024

Last Updated: 1 Oct 2024