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How to use the word Starve in a Sentence?

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They were kidnapped from their home. They were transported hundreds of miles from there not really sure where they went. And they came to this place of horror, some to die, many to starve and be tortured. Women to be raped before they were then forcibly taken on a journey thousands of miles from their home to be sold by so-called merchants and taken to the Americas to the Caribbean to be an enslaved people.

Kamala Harris

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I would rather starve and rot and keep the privilege of speaking the truth as I see it, than of holding all the offices that capital has to give from the presidency down.

Henry Brooks Adams

added by Normando
1 year ago

I think the government thinks that we should just either starve to death or freeze to death.

Yvonne DeBurgo

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Putin is squandering his dwindling resources on this pointless and barbaric war. He is bankrolling his ego at the expense of both the Ukrainian and Russian people, we need to starve the Putin regime of its funding.

Boris Johnson

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Guess what ? if those tons don't get to market, an awful lot of people in Africa are going to starve to death because they are the sole supplier of a number of African countries.

Joe Biden

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I would wear a sauna suit twice a day, run on the treadmill, completely cut out all sugar and all carbs, and just eat the cleanest veggies and protein, i didn't starve Kim Kardashian, but I was so strict.

Kim Kardashian

Found on CNN
1 year ago

They will just pummel the city ; they will destroy( it) section by section. They will starve the people out, depopulate it.

David Petraeus

Found on CNN
2 years ago

It's critical that we don't starve them of vehicles.

Rivian CEO RJ Scaringe

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Eating tree nuts like walnuts, almonds, hazelnuts, cashews, pistachios, and Brazil nuts may help prevent cancer, nuts contain cancer-fighting polyphenols that boost our immune systems to fight cancer, and they also have healthy omega 3 fatty acids, which can starve cancer by cutting off its blood supply.

William Li

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

In the state jails, you eat what they give you or you starve... it is absolute punishment and punitive beyond the regardless for human rights and dignity, in federal, they have different protocols, and they ask if you have any dietary or religious preferences.

Al Sharpton

Found on CNN
3 years ago

All of those things have allowed us to survive, and not starve.

Veronica Bedico

Found on CNN
3 years ago

John McCown created a political strategy, and African Americans voted themselves into power, it has come to a point where( Hancock County) is one of the most impoverished in America. There is a wives' tale -- I don't know if it's true or not -- that some political leaders in Georgia have always said that if we can't vote the people of Hancock County out, we'll starve them out -- and there's been a disproportionate lack of growth to this particular community.

Johnny Thornton

Found on CNN
3 years ago

America's abundance was created not by public sacrifices to the common good, but by the productive genius of free men who pursued their own personal interests and the making of their own private fortunes. They did not starve the people to pay for America's industrialization. They gave the people better jobs, higher wages and cheaper goods with every new machine they invented, with every scientific discovery or technological advance -- and thus the whole country was moving forward and profiting, not suffering, every step of the way.

Ayn Rand

added by Normando
3 years ago

If you stay at home, you'll just starve to death.

Dejair Batista

Found on CNN
3 years ago

If the sharks disappear, the little fish explode in population, because nothings eating them, pretty soon, their food plankton, microorganisms, little shrimps all of that is gone, so all the little fish ultimately starve.

Toby Daly-Engel

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

Im not going to see them starve.

Talia Kirkland

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

I will worship these sacred rice grains and I will give some to my relatives and neighbors, because they are considered auspicious, we worship it so that we will be blessed and will never starve.

Somkid Janchompoo

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Plastic is a cheap product to make, but it comes at a high price to our environment, i can't even stand the thought of it, when I go to the beach and see all the plastic on the waves and in the sand. It's found in most every bird stomach and in sea turtles and whales that starve to death, and the problem is getting much worse.

Jacqueline Savitz

Found on CNN
5 years ago

I can't even stand the thought of it, when I go to the beach and see all the plastic on the waves and in the sand. It's found in most every bird stomach and in sea turtles and whales that starve to death, and the problem is getting much worse.

Clare Ostle

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Bears and squirrels wouldnt be able to eat and would starve, deer would similarly be culled.

Christopher Walcek

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

Everyday in Africa, a gazelle wakes up. It knows it must outrun the fastest lion or it will be killed. Everyday in Africa, a lion wakes up. It knows it has to run faster than the slowest gazelle, or it will starve. It doesn’t matter if you’re the lion or a gazelle - when the sun comes up, you’d better be running.

Charles McDougall

added by Normando
5 years ago

Over the past year we have levied the highest sanctions ever imposed on Hezbollah -- in a single year, by far. Just a few moments ago, I signed legislation imposing even more hard-hitting sanctions on Hezbollah to further starve them of their funds. And they are starving for them.

Donald Trump

Found on CNN
5 years ago

We knew that if they kicked us off that platform we would have no place to go. Our families would starve.

Tim Harmsen

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

I didn’t need the Nazis to teach me how to starve.

Uncle Jacques

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

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    C bonzer
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