Use starved in a sentence
Sentences ending with starved
- And the kids--well, whilst the law lashed me from town to town, they starved. [5]
- Why, he mighty near starved. [5]
- But for her invention of numberless kinds of employment, for which there was no actual need, these families of Gentiles, who had failed in a Mormon community, would have starved. [13]
- Jim laid it in with all his might, for he was most about starved. [5]
- I am the eldest, and do what I can for them, that they may not be starved. [10]
- If bare, it did not seem starved. [11]
- And I--I have been starved. [9]
More example sentences with the word starved in them
- Perhaps also he would have starved others for the same purpose. [11]
- Mr. Martin followed with: "He reported that I do slack the service in the colony, and do nothing but tend my pot, spit, and oven; but he hath starved my son, and denied him a spoonful of beer. [4]
- So, as the winter went on, she starved in silence, and no one had more than sour milk and bread and a potato now and then. [11]
- That first long whiff was like the indrawn breath of the cold, starved hunter, when, stepping into his house, he sees food, fire, and wife on his hearthstone. [11]
- From these thoughts, trying enough for a starved lad, I fell to thinking of my father on the frontier fighting the Cherokees. [9]
- If he elected to let things be, then Bignold would die out there in the Gulch, starved, anguished, and alone. [11]
- About the time that the lichens, falling on the stone, like drops of water, had spread into fair, round rosettes, the tutor had starved into a slight cough. [6]
- According to the statement of the advocates and contemporaries of this remedy, none ever failed of receiving benefit unless their little faith and credulity starved their merits. [6]
- We were so starved that we ate up the rest of the Brigade's provisions, and then set out to Carson to tell them about it and ask their forgiveness. [5]
- We should have starved in the wilderness with you a-farming. [9]
- The Indians caught Smith's humor, and some of the men who ran away to seek Kemps and Tussore were mocked and ridiculed, and had applied to them --Smith's law of "who cannot work must not eat;" they were almost starved and beaten nearly to death. [4]
- There is the skeleton figure representing Fox (who should have been called Goose), the poor creature who starved himself to death in trying to imitate the fast of forty days in the wilderness. [6]
- It was the same bad old game--the corvee, the kourbash, conscription, a war manufactured to fill the pockets of a few, while the poor starved and died. [11]
- And you would probably stand up there and look, and stare and wonder at the magnificence spread out before you till you starved to death, if let alone. [5]
- My life is pinched and starved here. [6]
- And our own people, starved and snowbound, went out likewise,--Tom and Polly Ann and their little family and myself to the farm at the river-side. [9]
- Weary of the pent-up life, longing for action, and starved for a good meal, the anger of his many followers against Clark and Harrod was nigh as great as his. [9]
- Soldiers and stragglers passed down the street near by, and a few starved peasants crept about the cathedral with downcast eyes, eager for crumbs that a well-fed soldier might cast aside. [11]
- She loved it now, as though she felt it quickening within her, she wanted it, to lavish on it all of a starved affection. [9]
- The properties of multitudes of people were under water for months, and the poorer ones must have starved by the hundred if succor had not been promptly afforded. [5]
- First we thought maybe they got lost, and wandered around and about till their food and water give out and they starved to death; but Tom said no wild animals nor vultures hadn't meddled with them, and so that guess wouldn't do. [5]
- If he fails in his siege, I do really believe he will die early; not of a broken heart, exactly, but of a heart starved, with the food it was craving close to it, but unattainable. [6]
- Now ever once in four or five dayes, Pocahontas with her attendants, brought him so much provision, that saved many of their lives, that els for all this had starved with hunger. [4]
- There were six hundred men in the town and fort,--soldiers, inhabitants, and Indians,--while we had but 170, starved and weakened by their incredible march. [9]
- What happened to him at Port Darwin and elsewhere, I don't know; but one day I found him on a fashionable steamer in the Indian Ocean, looking almost as near to Kingdom Come as when he starved in the dingey on No Man's Sea. [11]
- He promised the he would never carry another green watermelon if he starved for it. [5]
- And I reckon he would have starved sure enough, if some jour' printer or other hadn't took pity on him and got him a place as apprentice. [5]
- More than once he had practically starved himself to send money to her. [11]
- You know they have charged that I voted against the supplies, by which I starved the soldiers who were out fighting the battles of their country. [7]
- With these in hand, certain favoured industrial concerns could be fed, and others starved into submission. [9]
- The poor unfortunate had starved to death. [5]
- Has it not got down as thin as the homeopathic soup that was made by boiling the shadow of a pigeon that had starved to death? [7]
- He was a garrison holding a fort, and was not to be starved out. [5]
- He sees his enemy: horsemen sitting motionless, with long spears in rest, upon blindfolded broken-down nags, lean and starved, fit only for sport and sacrifice, then the carrion-heap. [5]
- People had to drive their stock long distances --immense journeys--from worn-out places to new ones where were water and fresh pasturage; and this wide space had to be left in grass and unfenced, or the stock would have starved to death in the transit. [5]
- The Dred Scott decision covers the whole ground, and while it occupies it, there is no room even for the shadow of a starved pigeon to occupy the same ground. [7]
- How charge after charge was made during the long, hot day and into the night; how the delegates were carried out limp and speechless and starved and wet through, and carried in to vote again,--will all be told in time. [9]
- But he got caught in a snow-drift in the cars, and like to have been starved to death. [5]
- It is their boast that nobody ever starved under their government. [6]
- Captured five years before and forgotten alike by the English and French Governments, he had apathetically pined and starved to these last days of his life. [11]
- This was a bauble compared with the companionship of the woman I loved, the woman intended for me, who would give me peace of mind and soul and develop those truer aspirations that had long been thwarted and starved for lack of her. [9]
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