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Sentences ending with starve

I remember how you used to starve. [13]
In a little while I would starve. [5]
But I've had to run along with the tide, or give place to another man who would; and--and starve. [9]
We shall whip the Yankees before we starve. [9]
The man would starve. [5]
My family won't starve. [10]
In the best of times they do but subsist, but in adverse times they starve. [4]
The steel-mills of Mr. Durrett and Mr. Hambleton, he continued, would be forced to shut down, and thousands of workmen would starve. [9]
Virginia has given him a sword, eight thousand wild acres to be sure, repudiated the debts of his army, and left him to starve. [9]
Then his curly head fell, and he said sadly, but decisively: "I will stay here and starve. [10]

Short sentences using starve

But we'll not starve, Nancy. [5]
We shan't starve. [9]

Sentences containing starve two or more times

Thus sometimes he defied me, took on Protean guises, blustered, insinuated, cajoled, managed to make me believe that to starve him would be to starve myself, to sap all there was of power in me. [9]

More example sentences with the word starve in them

He thinks you would starve me. [5]
They said they would starve before they would apply. [5]
A true Egyptian would rather starve, than eat out of the same dish with one of us. [10]
The desert is wide and there is room and to spare to starve in it, and for your bones to bleach there. [10]
Shall I starve whom I love, to win a gentle death? [5]
There were people who were willing to teach us German, without rooms or board; or to lodge us without giving us German or food; or to feed us, and let us starve intellectually, and lodge where we could. [4]
It is not well to starve on the chance of help coming, and then die fighting with weak arms and broken spirit. [11]
Because her plan was to raise the siege immediately, by fighting, while theirs was to besiege the besiegers and starve them out by closing their communications--a plan which would require months in the consummation. [5]
Only one thing was perfectly clear to her: she would rather starve and die of thirst, and shame, and misery-nay, she would rather be the instrument of her own death, than return to her husband. [10]
A man accustomed to American food and American domestic cookery would not starve to death suddenly in Europe; but I think he would gradually waste away, and eventually die. [5]
I inwardly resolved that I would starve before I would make a target of myself and shoot rubbish at it with a long-handled shovel. [5]
Does she deserve that her husband should leave her to starve, neglect her, and take a strange woman into his tent as if he had repudiated her? [10]
Let your youngest starve, or beat him to a cripple, else he also will be dragged off to Syria; for Rameses needs much good Egyptian meat for the Syrian vultures. [10]
The rest either starve or get killed. [2]
They proceeded to starve him slowly to death, meantime frightfully maltreating him--as the village people now make known, when it is too late. [5]
By what right--he seemed to ask--had I nourished him all these years if now I meant to starve him? [9]
And Pontiac would rather starve than beg. [11]
Not tramps,--no, the other sort--the sort that will starve before they will beg--honest square people out of work. [5]
It is work or starve from now to the end. [5]
But there were one hundred and fifty of the colony who would rather starve or eat each other than help gather food. [4]
After the departure of Wingfield, Captain Smith was constrained to act as Cape Merchant; the leaders were sick or discontented, the rest were in despair, and would rather starve and rot than do anything for their own relief, and the Indian trade was decreasing. [4]
My father will not see me starve in prison, nor want for defence, though my attitude shall be 'no defence. [11]
But as grief must be fed with thought, or starve to death, it is the best plan to keep the mind so busy in other ways that it has no time to attend to the wants of that ravening passion. [6]
Look at old misers; first they starve their dependants, and then themselves. [6]
My husband is master in this region; his power hath hardly any limit; the people prosper or starve, as he wills. [5]
I've held back long enough, I tell you, and I'll starve this winter for you nor any one else. [9]
So I thought it best to fill myself up for the cold, and then keep dark and let the fever starve awhile. [5]
Bofe un us is gwine to starve to--" "Wait and hear me through, can't you! [5]
When I was in Hannibal, before I had scarcely stepped out of the town limits, nothing could have convinced me that I would starve as soon as I got a little way from home.... [5]
We'll not starve, here, but we'll not get rich, I'm afraid. [5]
If Cyriax left her in the lurch, she must beg or starve unless chance, which so often mingled in her existence, willed otherwise. [10]
Our parents could have made themselves comfortable by exhibiting us as a show, and they had many and large offers; but the thought revolted their pride, and they said they would starve and die first. [5]
Indeed, they would have been obliged to emigrate or starve but for a fortunate idea of Prince Fridolin's, who started a labor-union, the first one in history, and got the great bulk of them to join it. [5]
So this chap had a falling out with his father, and was pretty high strung, and just cut for this country, and the first he knew he had to get to work or starve. [5]
It is the great subject of modern times, how to fertilize without ruinous expense; how, in short, not to starve the earth to death while we get our living out of it. [4]
She resolved to go to her birthplace; she had friends there among the Negros, and the unfortunate always help the unfortunate, she was well aware of that; those lowly comrades of her youth would not let her starve. [5]
If a grandly gifted man may drag his pride and his manhood in the dirt for bread rather than starve with the nobility that is in him untainted, the excuse is a valid one. [5]
The invalid is full of inherited superstitions and won't starve himself. [5]
I should ill fulfil my office if I were to let them starve, because the highest comfort is lacking to them. [10]
I'd sooner scrub floors, I'd sooner starve than do such a thing--take money for my affections. [9]
If they don't do as you like, you turn them out; you say they can starve for all you care. [9]
For once they didn't starve a genius to death and then put into other pockets the rewards he should have had himself. [5]
What do they care how many they starve and make miserable? [9]
A raft was bound together, and Tom McChesney and three other scouts sent on a desperate journey across the river in search of boats and provisions, lest we starve and fall and die on the wet flats. [9]
The consequence might be guessed without my telling it: peopled turned their stock loose to starve, and before the spring arrived Carson and Eagle valleys were almost literally carpeted with their carcases! [5]
I swear by Athene, by Father Zeus, and by Apollo, that I will sooner starve in foreign lands than take one step homeward, so long as the Pisistratidae hold my country in bondage. [10]
And now there arose the Song of the Sakkia from the man at the wheel: "Turn, O Sakkia, turn to the right, and turn to the left; The heron feeds by the water side--shall I starve in my onion-field! [11]
I would go anywhere, anywhere in the wide world with you I would rather my body would starve and die than your mind should hunger and wither away in this lonely land. [5]
Within the hour, another friend assured me that it was policy to "feed a cold and starve a fever. [5]
Don't be silly and think you'll try To bother the colleges, when you die, With codicil this, and codicil that, That Knowledge may starve while Law grows fat; For there never was pitcher that wouldn't spill, And there's always a flaw in a donkey's will! [6]
I questioned them, and then locked them into their rooms--the frailest ones to starve nine or ten hours, the others twelve or fifteen. [5]
If we starve and sleep as did Grah's mother, then it also is the game. [11]
She shall live--go and fight Yellow Hawk, or starve and die. [11]
They comfortably jail and feed a wife-beater, and leave his innocent wife and family to starve. [5]
It was spring-- a man is a fool to starve in the spring. [11]
He would say, "I had to write that or die; and I've got to scratch it out or starve. [5]

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