Starving is an English word with synonyms like starved or malnourished. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Starving meaning
present participle and gerund of starve
Synonyms of Starving
Using Starving
- The main meaning on this page is: present participle and gerund of starve
- Useful related words include: starved, malnourished, starvation, privation.
- In the example corpus, starving often appears in combinations such as: are starving, and starving, starving and.
Context around Starving
- Average sentence length in these examples: 25.8 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 10 middle, 7 end
- Sentence types: 18 statements, 2 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Starving
- In this selection, "starving" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 25.8 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, world, bed, now, masses, new and locals stand out and add context to how "starving" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include 2024 by starving lower tier and a world starving and agitate. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "starving" sits close to words such as allocations, baths and berger, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with starving
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Do he not remember when he was starving in them apartments? (11 words)
Fans of the space saga won’t be starving for streaming material, however. (13 words)
Agents would hijack relief shipments to keep a world starving and agitate the starving masses against the rulers. (18 words)
Driven by a group of seniors who have enjoyed individual success and are starving for a memorable finish to their accomplished careers, Lacey climbed that steep hill and set themselves up to win a championship that has been in the works for a full decade. (45 words)
A film that came later in Charlton Heston's career that earned him acclaim was The ecological thriller, which was released in 1973, takes place in 2022 in an overpopulated and starving New York City. (35 words)
But given the massive partisan divide in Wisconsin, and a gerrymandered Republican Legislature that has been starving the UW System since 2011, it’s hard to imagine any bipartisan policymaking will rise to the fore. (35 words)
But when we are starving, and we feed ourselves with empty calories - a poor substitute for real nutrition - what happens? (20 words)
Do he not remember when he was starving in them apartments? (11 words)
Example sentences (20)
Agents would hijack relief shipments to keep a world starving and agitate the starving masses against the rulers.
My life could be a lot worse, i could be starving in North Korea or starving in Venezuala instead of grappling with existential dread.
A film that came later in Charlton Heston's career that earned him acclaim was The ecological thriller, which was released in 1973, takes place in 2022 in an overpopulated and starving New York City.
After digging a little deeper, she soon discovered the child and his family had at home - and faced going to bed starving.
After the Russians occupied Mariupol in May 2022, they started using Metro’s premises as a point to distribute humanitarian aid to the starving locals, forcing people to wait in long lines.
A priest from Cork who is working in Syria with survivors of the one of the world’s deadliest earthquakes ever recorded has said that, six months on, the people there are now “starving”.
But given the massive partisan divide in Wisconsin, and a gerrymandered Republican Legislature that has been starving the UW System since 2011, it’s hard to imagine any bipartisan policymaking will rise to the fore.
But Mr Prigozhin has increasingly criticized the military brass, accusing it of incompetence and of starving his troops of munitions.
But when we are starving, and we feed ourselves with empty calories - a poor substitute for real nutrition - what happens?
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.
By doing so, AFP – viewed as the largest and best-funded grassroots organization in the nation – could help narrow the Republican field in 2024 by starving lower-tier contenders of funding and attention.
Cook said her mother was unable to feed herself, and began to suffer from malnutrition — with one doctor allegedly even saying she was starving.
Do he not remember when he was starving in them apartments?
Driven by a group of seniors who have enjoyed individual success and are starving for a memorable finish to their accomplished careers, Lacey climbed that steep hill and set themselves up to win a championship that has been in the works for a full decade.
Fans of the space saga won’t be starving for streaming material, however.
Filmmaker Randy Martin's documentary Karen Carpenter: Starving for Perfection is currently touring the film festival circuit, and it features audio of Karen admitting she had an eating disorder.
Google Chrome has long had a reputation of being fast, secure… and ravenous for memory like a starving teenager at an all-you-can-eat buffet.
Hazel and Holly arrived at the Oakland Zoo separately but both were malnourished, starving, and in dire need of medical care without P-22 to feed them.
High GI foods leave you starving, cranky, and much more prone to a cheat meal to make up for the feeling.
I wish that I had somebody when I was 13 years old and having an eating disorder and starving myself.
Common combinations with starving
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- are starving 24×
- and starving 19×
- starving and 18×
- the starving 18×
- starving to 13×
- starving for 13×
- of starving 11×
- starving in 9×
- was starving 9×
- were starving 8×