On this page you'll find 10+ example sentences with Starve. Discover the meaning, synonyms such as hunger or deprive and how to use the word correctly in a sentence.
Starve meaning
- To die because of lack of food or of not eating.
- To suffer severely because of lack of food or of not eating.
- To be very hungry.
Synonyms of Starve
Starve vertaling naar Nederlands
Using Starve
- The main meaning on this page is: To die because of lack of food or of not eating. | To suffer severely because of lack of food or of not eating. | To be very hungry.
- Useful related words include: famish, hunger, deprive, pass.
- Possible Dutch translations are: verhongeren, sterven van de honger.
- In the example corpus, starve often appears in combinations such as: to starve, starve to, starve the.
Context around Starve
- Average sentence length in these examples: 23.8 words
- Position in the sentence: 5 start, 10 middle, 5 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Starve
- In this selection, "starve" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 23.8 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, family, together, character and off stand out and add context to how "starve" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include and then starve to death and and you starve him or. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "starve" sits close to words such as abbvie, almonds and assassinate, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with starve
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
People began to starve again. (5 words)
If you are vegetarian or vegan, you would not starve. (10 words)
One driver said: “If they phase out jeepneys, many will lose their livelihood and starve. (15 words)
I wish that it was in when my father needed it, he begged me….he had told me for years prior he wanted euthanasia, but instead we had to watch him dramatically decline, loose his mind and then starve to death. (41 words)
Deprive a child of that by ridiculing faith, abandoning ritual, and focusing instead on academic achievement and other forms of success, and you starve him or her of some of the most important elements of emotional and psychological well-being. (40 words)
Civilians are watching members of their family starve to death as Kim's government gained more control over the population following the pandemic, meaning it is harder for people to smuggle in food. (33 words)
Example sentences (20)
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But the real pros know there’s only one way to starve off those emotional shakes: get some sleep.
By Christmastime, blockaded and strangled, the Japanese would have been starving to death by the millions, though the army, which had stockpiled food, would starve last.
Civilians are watching members of their family starve to death as Kim's government gained more control over the population following the pandemic, meaning it is harder for people to smuggle in food.
Deprive a child of that by ridiculing faith, abandoning ritual, and focusing instead on academic achievement and other forms of success, and you starve him or her of some of the most important elements of emotional and psychological well-being.
Elect politicians who will starve the beast and shrink the government small enough to be drowned in a bath tub.
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He ordered them to starve themselves and their children to death so they could meet Jesus in heaven ahead of that date, they said.
If you are vegetarian or vegan, you would not starve.
Initial investigation suggests the couple would starve and thrash the girl, accusing her of “not working properly” and “stealing food”.
I wish that it was in when my father needed it, he begged me….he had told me for years prior he wanted euthanasia, but instead we had to watch him dramatically decline, loose his mind and then starve to death.
Muslims make war on each other, bomb and starve each other, turn a blind eye to the suffering of their brethren in other nations, and even make strategic pacts with the oppressors.
One driver said: “If they phase out jeepneys, many will lose their livelihood and starve.
People began to starve again.
Skipping meals and restricting food in general can lead to a starve-then-binge eating pattern.
The collection of taxes is so slow that the dependents would starve before money from that source was made available.
You know what I mean — the ones that keep fueling that stink up our waterways, kill off our seagrass, and starve manatees, not to mention making our tourists choke and gasp.
A depressed mum left her black Labrador to starve to death, as she fed her terrier and children takeaways, a court heard.
A future Trump administration could try to starve the UN of funding to erode the rules based international order, emboldening autocrats.
Common combinations with starve
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- to starve 55×
- starve to 24×
- starve the 17×
- and starve 15×
- starve and 11×
- would starve 8×
- will starve 7×
- don't starve 6×
- could starve 6×
- starve together 5×