How to Use starve in a Sentence

starve

verb
  • They left him to starve out in the desert.
  • It was clear that the dog had been starved.
  • You don't have to starve yourself to lose weight.
  • Without food they would starve.
  • They tried to starve their enemies into submission.
  • Was the bird all alone and starving to death?
    — Brianna Zigler, Entertainment Weekly, 21 May 2026
  • For these, men starved themselves to death in hunger strikes.
    — Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 10 Feb. 2018
  • Even then, if all the prairie dogs have died, ferrets will starve.
    — Elizabeth Miller/undark, Popular Science, 11 Jan. 2020
  • How can anyone turn away from the plight of a starving child?
    — Letters To The Editor, The Orlando Sentinel, 29 May 2025
  • Refugees in these other places are starving or have no clothes.
    — Rory Fleming, CNN, 18 July 2024
  • There are kids who don’t have money for food and are starving.
    — Dp Opinion, The Denver Post, 27 Dec. 2019
  • The girl said the sisters beat her, starved her and restrained her.
    — Louis Casiano, FOXNews.com, 14 Nov. 2025
  • This drug starves babies and harms mothers!
    — Jordan King, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Oct. 2025
  • When the prey in an area has been eaten, predators must move or starve.
    — John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 20 Dec. 2020
  • The girl said the sisters beat her, starved her, and restrained her.
    — Louis Casiano , Brooke Taylor, FOXNews.com, 27 Oct. 2025
  • The coral, now bleached, is alive, but slowly starving.
    — Denise Hruby, Miami Herald, 29 Aug. 2025
  • Longhorns past and present have been championship-starved for a while now.
    — Nick Moyle, ExpressNews.com, 16 Sep. 2019
  • Even after the spring rolls and the salmon, these ladies are still starving.
    — Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 10 Mar. 2026
  • If the layer of thatch is ½ inch thick or thicker, in can starve the lawn.
    — Joseph Truini, Popular Mechanics, 8 July 2019
  • His people are starving, bread is scarce, and all that can be had is fish.
    — Lauren Morgan, EW.com, 22 July 2024
  • He was then left alone in the woods to starve when the devil paid him a visit.
    — Samantha Highfill, EW.com, 18 July 2022
  • But Gomez said the menu will be drinks-first, so don’t come starving.
    — Kansas City Star, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Crews stripped or burned brush in areas near homes in an effort to starve the blaze.
    — CBS News, 16 Dec. 2017
  • It could be ordered to starve itself healthy and it could be made to wait for help.
    — Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 17 Apr. 2020
  • In finance, that brain is starving.
    — Jerry Shu, Forbes.com, 1 June 2026
  • 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
  • At first, the team assumed the wolves would eat the deer and move on—or starve and perish.
    — Doug Johnson, Ars Technica, 26 Jan. 2023
  • There he was starved, beaten and put to work as a slave laborer.
    — Susan Farrell, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 May 2023
  • The doctors are still starving.
    — Darcie Moran, Freep.com, 18 Oct. 2025
  • They are beaten, they are tortured, they are raped, they are shot, hanged, and starved.
    — David Faris, Newsweek, 4 Nov. 2024

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