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• In the 1940s, Jewish militias (and later the IDF) were starved of weapons from abroad.
  — Shashank Joshi, Foreign Affairs, 20 Feb. 2024
• Good jobs are scarce, housing is hard to come by and infrastructure, starved of a tax base, is in dire shape.
  — Campbell Robertson, BostonGlobe.com, 29 Oct. 2022
• Small blood vessels become clogged to the point that tissue and organs are starved of oxygen.
  — NBC News, 28 Sep. 2020
• Because we’ve been starved of it for a long time and not only just post pandemic, but in general the way tech has pulled us apart.
  — Jem Aswad, Variety, 19 Oct. 2023
• In a scene rescue workers would later compare to a zombie movie, cars died in the middle of the road, their engines starved of oxygen.
  — Nara Schoenberg, Chicago Tribune, 23 July 2023
• Its mountain home is poor in nutrients and frequently starved of rain.
  — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 9 Jan. 2012
• Business owners starved of drive-through traffic by the barricades and the pandemic want the traffic flow.
  — Sara Sidner, CNN, 14 Mar. 2021
• Not only that, but Candida, like his yeast, was known to switch from the round to the filamentous form when starved of nitrogen.
  — Peter Radetsky, Discover Magazine, 11 Nov. 2019
• After being starved of red-carpet wear in the latter part of 2023, expect awards show attendees to dream big.
  — Alice Newbold, Vogue, 2 Jan. 2024
• In July of that year, out of options and starved of tax revenue, Detroit declared bankruptcy.
  — Matthew Heimer, Fortune, 27 Sep. 2023
• Soledar's fall, while unlikely a turning point in the nearly 11-month war, would be a prize for a Kremlin starved of good battlefield news in recent months.
  — Arkansas Online, 12 Jan. 2023
• Soledar’s fall, while unlikely a turning point in the nearly 11-month war, would be a prize for a Kremlin starved of good battlefield news in recent months.
  — Andrew Meldrum, Anchorage Daily News, 12 Jan. 2023
• Whether they were being cut or starved of water, each type of stress could be matched with a specific, identifiable sound.
  — Sofia Quaglia, Discover Magazine, 28 Apr. 2023
• Within minutes, brain cells starved of oxygen and nutrients begin to die.
  — Bree Iskandar, STAT, 15 Aug. 2023
• Tens of thousands of fish washed ashore along the gulf coast of Texas starting on Friday after being starved of oxygen in warm water, officials said.
  — Chris Cameron, New York Times, 11 June 2023
• Tens of thousands of fish washed ashore along the gulf coast of Texas starting on Friday after being starved of oxygen in warm water, officials said.
  — Chris Cameron, New York Times, 11 June 2023
• It was starved of federal funding for decades and recently has gotten most of its support from private sources.
  — Chris Impey, Discover Magazine, 1 July 2021
• Over the course of Hadid’s three-month absence from public life, fashion observers have been starved of the model’s chaotic and bizarre and genius approach to getting dressed in the morning.
  — Daniel Rodgers, Glamour, 10 Aug. 2023
• In Lyon, the idea of an offal sausage, or andouillette, without its mustard sauce is as inconceivable as cheese starved of wine.
  — New York Times, 14 July 2022
• Get this: The fires of wokeness will soon be starved of fuel by the sterile monotony of wokeness’s achievement: enforced orthodoxy.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 13 Jan. 2023
• The Nepalese government, starved of tourism revenue, has yet to cancel the spring climbing season -- usually from April to early June before the monsoon rains.
  — Reuters, CNN, 9 May 2021
• Vaccinations were available in rich, Western countries for the first time, but despite recording many deaths, poorer Africa was starved of the vaccines.
  — Farai Mutsaka, ajc, 16 Dec. 2022
• Patients, starved of oxygen and revived by ventilators or ECMO, don’t trust the machines.
  — Thomas Curwen, Los Angeles Times, 12 Mar. 2021
• Brexit may still be the official policy of both parties, but starved of growth, the United Kingdom needs better access to the EU’s single market.
  — Matthias Matthijs, Foreign Affairs, 30 Apr. 2024
• Yes, publishing loves an upstart phenom, and too many second and third books by brilliant authors are starved of marketing.
  — Boris Kachka, Los Angeles Times, 13 Jan. 2024
• Soon, though, a simultaneous writers and actors strike may leave movie theater chains starved of new releases.
  — Elizabeth Robinson, NBC News, 2 Aug. 2023
• But starved of dress-up opportunities during Covid, and uninspired by before-times conformity, more guys are thinking outside the tux.
  — Todd Plummer, WSJ, 17 Feb. 2023
• As states were starved of resources, conservatives like the Koch network were pumping resources into states to take over legislatures.
  — Nomiki Konst, New York Daily News, 3 July 2024
• Oil production also helps algae overcome the stress of growing in full sunlight, which can be hard on these cells, particularly when they are starved of one or more nutrients.
  — Eric Jarvis, IEEE Spectrum, 29 Oct. 2010
• The company’s Paramount Pictures movie studio has been in turnaround mode for several years and some of its top cable networks have been starved of fresh content for a similar period of time.
  — Brian Steinberg, Variety, 10 Jan. 2024

Last Updated: 16 Nov 2024