Examples of starvation in a Sentence
The famine brought mass starvation.
Millions of people face starvation every day.
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More than a hundred thousand died of disease and starvation, as their waterways and other food sources were overtaken by miners.
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Jennifer Wilson, New Yorker, 4 May 2026
Her autopsy showed the 11-year-old died of starvation and child abuse.
—Laura Tillman, Hartford Courant, 30 Apr. 2026
Reports that dozens of people had died, including some of apparent starvation, made no difference.
—ABC News, 28 Apr. 2026
During the Nakba in 1948, in which 750,000 Palestinians fled or were displaced from their land by Zionist forces, farm and domestic animals were killed, seized, left without care or driven to starvation.
—Irus Braverman, The Conversation, 27 Apr. 2026
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Jennifer Wilson, New Yorker, 4 May 2026
Her autopsy showed the 11-year-old died of starvation and child abuse.
—Laura Tillman, Hartford Courant, 30 Apr. 2026
Reports that dozens of people had died, including some of apparent starvation, made no difference.
—ABC News, 28 Apr. 2026
During the Nakba in 1948, in which 750,000 Palestinians fled or were displaced from their land by Zionist forces, farm and domestic animals were killed, seized, left without care or driven to starvation.
—Irus Braverman, The Conversation, 27 Apr. 2026
See All Example Sentences for starvation
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“Starvation.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/starvation. Accessed 4 May. 2026.
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starvation
noun
star·va·tion
stär-ˈvā-shən 
: the act or an instance of starving : the state of being starved
Medical Definition
starvation
noun
star·va·tion
stär-ˈvā-shən
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