How to Use starvation in a Sentence

starvation

noun

• The famine brought mass starvation.
• Millions of people face starvation every day.
• Heat stress that lasts more than a few weeks can lead the coral to die of starvation.
  — Julia Musto, Fox News, 11 May 2022
• Amid this void, the north is stalked by mass starvation.
  — Mairav Zonszein, TIME, 4 Apr. 2024
• In 2011, failed rains led to a wave of starvation that led to a national tragedy.
  — Faustine Ngila, Quartz, 6 Feb. 2023
• And one of the questions is whether the households have lost a child because of starvation.
  — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 2 May 2024
• And drought in East Africa has left millions at risk of starvation.
  — Justin Worland, Time, 28 Oct. 2022
• Riyadh and Abu Dhabi have clout to jointly force an end to the starvation tactics.
  — Alex De Waal, Foreign Affairs, 17 June 2024
• The growths also could get in the way of their ability to see, eat or drink, which could lead to starvation.
  — Chloe Gonzales, USA TODAY, 15 July 2022
• Tens of millions of people in Africa or in the Middle East will turn out to be on the brink of starvation — because of the West.
  — Catherine Belton, Washington Post, 3 June 2022
• The legacy of starvation was never far from the surface.
  — Smithsonian Magazine, 25 Jan. 2024
• Disease and starvation lead the entire colony to the brink of extinction.
  — Lorraine Berry, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Sep. 2023
• The charges include the use of starvation as a method of warfare and attacks on civilians.
  — Dan Perry, Newsweek, 26 Nov. 2024
• Food is scarce and the city is erupting with violence fueled by the fear of starvation.
  — Jourdain Searles, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Sep. 2023
• The war has leveled vast swaths of the tiny enclave and pushed a quarter of residents to starvation.
  — Matthew Lee, arkansasonline.com, 7 Feb. 2024
• Put simply, hunger and starvation are already here and kicking in the door.
  — Ian Pannell, ABC News, 15 Dec. 2021
• First, 49 million people are on the brink of starvation.
  — Gayle E. Smith, Forbes, 21 June 2022
• Their mother, Edith, had died of starvation the year before.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 22 Jan. 2022
• Ethiopia is one of five countries that the U.N. considers at risk of starvation.
  — Los Angeles Times, 14 Aug. 2022
• Tens of thousands of people have been killed since the conflict broke out, while millions have been left on the brink of starvation.
  — Mostafa Salem, CNN, 7 Apr. 2022
• But many manatees have died of starvation because of a lack of seagrass, which is a key source of food.
  — Jim Saunders, Sun Sentinel, 7 Nov. 2022
• The deaths were primarily from starvation due to the loss of seagrass beds.
  — CBS News, 22 Jan. 2022
• Israel has been accused of using starvation in Gaza as a weapon of war.
  — Greg Dixon, NPR, 21 Nov. 2024
• Walker says, with emotion, that some six children a day die of starvation somewhere in the world.
  — and David Noyce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 16 Aug. 2023
• The toddler's cause of death was starvation, and the manner was ruled to be accidental, the sheriff said.
  — David K. Li, NBC News, 16 Nov. 2022
• The famine led to a record number of deaths, with more than 1,100 dying from starvation, boat strikes, cold stress and other causes.
  — David Fleshler, sun-sentinel.com, 1 Feb. 2022
• Most died from starvation, but tens of thousands were killed during reprisals.
  — Carolyn Hagler, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Sep. 2023
• Some 14 million people in Kenya, Somalia and Ethiopia are on the brink of starvation.
  — Patrick Galey, NBC News, 22 May 2022
• The evidence suggests Kik died of starvation around the age of 28, in the late winter or early spring, when resources were at their scarcest.
  — Richard Grant, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Oct. 2023
• Faced with starvation, my father now makes coffee, eggs, toast, and passable suppers of fried meat with corn-on-the-cob.
  — Longreads, 20 Apr. 2022

Last Updated: 16 Dec 2024