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Sentences ending with starving

They were sick with the evil skin, and starving. [11]
Of course it was good; anything is good when you are starving. [5]
In the end the fines ate up our crop--and they took it all; they took it all and made us harvest it for them, without pay or food, and we starving. [5]
For the romance of that journey, it concerned only the man and woman to whom it was as wine and meat to the starving. [11]
Look at him --he lives in luxury while his people are starving. [9]
There are men enough in this camp to keep him from starving. [9]
They said, "People can't eat unification, and we are starving. [5]
Two weeks later, after great trials, the band emerged on the shores of Hudson's Bay, almost without baggage, and starving. [11]
He was starving. [11]

Short sentences using starving

Well, I am starving here. [11]

Sentences containing starving two or more times

This supply contented the company, who feared nothing so much as starving, and yet, says Smith, so envied him that they would rather hazard starving than have him get reputation by his vigorous conduct. [4]

More example sentences with the word starving in them

A sample: a youth staked out a claim and tried to sell half for L5; no takers; he stuck to it fourteen days, starving, then struck it rich and sold out for L10,000. [5]
So it's you who's starving us to death! [2]
The common distress, which afflicted them and so many starving people, oppressed his soul with a thousand-fold greater power. [10]
Ursula was growing weak herself, and showed it; and she ate of the food that was offered her like a starving person, but could not be persuaded to carry any home, for Marget would not eat charity food. [5]
Some think that this murder is a frenzied revolt against the criminal militarism which is impoverishing Europe and driving the starving poor mad. [5]
The threepenny pieces they get are to help their starving mother to heat the attic room in those winter days which, cold though they are, may warm the heart. [10]
Go and take them, Beki; it is our duty to save the sacred animals from starving to death. [10]
The history of the sea teaches that among starving, shipwrecked men selfishness is rare, and a wonder-compelling magnanimity the rule. [5]
Who is it that's starving us? [2]
I never saw such utterly wretched, starving, sad-visaged, broken-hearted looking curs in my life. [5]
You must be starving, poor things!--set down, set down, everybody; don't lose no more time. [5]
Why, I'm just starving to shake hands with somebody! [5]
He kills the starving stranger who comes begging for food and shelter there is proof of it. [5]
When you were starving he risked his life--" Torn by anxiety for my friend, I dragged myself into the nearest cabin, and a man was fighting there in the half-light at the port. [9]
There are sixteen starving babies from one to six years old in the party, and their legs are no larger than broom handles. [5]
The fighting and starving and dying by bullets and disease went steadily on. [5]
Well, I've been so mad for two days I couldn't find my way to town--been wandering around in the brush in a starving condition--got anything here to drink, General? [5]
The provisions to save the starving people are here, the boats are below the city, the wind is contrary, they cannot come up hither. [5]
Yung Wing, now returned to China, had conceived the idea of making an appeal to the Government of the United States for relief of his starving countrymen. [5]
She, too, quickly retained them, and murmured softly: "Noise and dazzling radiance are hostile to the purer light, Morning and day will rise quietly from the starving sand. [10]
They had not received their well-earned pay for twenty-two months, and the starving regiments now sought means of support wherever they could find them. [10]
This was the place about which Chatterton wrote, in those delusive letters he sent to his mother at Bristol, while he was starving in London. [14]
By it no Orphans starving, no widows weeping. [7]
The man who originated public gas-lighting, and that other benefactor who introduced the cultivation of the potato and thus blessed millions of his starving countrymen, lie with the Prince of Masserano, and with exiled queens and princes of Further India. [5]
I am tired of the miserable starving and struggling, my dear Wolf. [10]
The lion's share of his gains he loaned to broken gamblers, without expectation of return, gave to starving artists, or flung with lavish hand to beggars. [10]
Yet is he not well, any more than I, though but just now, in the dining-hall at the Elephant, I ate like a starving wolf, and could at this moment jump over this table. [10]
But I have no use for that book; and if I were even starving for it I would not pay duty on in either to get it or suppress it. [5]
With her is no sitting down and starving out; no dilly-dallying and fooling around; no lazying, loafing, and going to sleep; no, it is storm! [5]
The hungry, made more desperate by their own sufferings or the spectacle of starving families, were increasingly difficult to control: many wished to return to work, others clamoured for violence, nor were these wholly discouraged by a portion of the leaders. [9]
Did the starving men feed him from their dire poverty? [5]
When I first knew him out in Indianapolis he was starving along with a sick wife and a sick newspaper. [8]
He's obliged to keep the little creatures shut up, for whenever they appear, the poor starving people shoot at them. [10]
Just work itself is bliss when a man's been starving for it. [5]
Coming to Paris in wooden shoes, starving, almost, at first, he raised himself to great eminence as a surgeon and as an author, and at last obtained the Professorship to which his talents and learning entitled him. [6]
It is as if two starving men had divided their only loaf, the one had hastily swallowed his half, and then grabbed the other's half just as he was putting it to his mouth. [7]
As far as I can see, Italy, for fifteen hundred years, has turned all her energies, all her finances, and all her industry to the building up of a vast array of wonderful church edifices, and starving half her citizens to accomplish it. [5]
Ye have no hope, because ye see the hawks among the starving sheep. [11]
Time passed without his perceiving it, but a torturing desire for food began to torment the starving man. [10]
And in all his life Hodder had never beheld a greater contrast in human beings than between that gracious and courtly old man and the haggard, unkempt, unshaved, and starving outcast facing him. [9]
Have you noticed here a cynic philosopher whose starving brother we maintain? [10]
I fancy they'll have to wait some time till they see me down-hearted or afraid of starving while I have strength to work and am in a city of 400,000 inhabitants. [5]
Mr. Speaker, we have all heard of the animal standing in doubt between two stacks of hay and starving to death. [7]
But in these hard times, when so many are starving, a soft heart may be moved to other follies. [10]
Everybody knew he had money enough, and yet he had hanged himself for fear of starving to death. [6]
Something must be done to feed a starving treasury, and there is no other resource in all Italy --none but the riches of the Church. [5]
There is nothing definite said or hinted as yet, as I understand Cox; but starving men are the same as maniacs. [5]
And still they came, winter as it was, for when a man's soul is starving, what does he care for meat and roof so he can but get that nobler hunger fed? [5]
A born climber's appetite for climbing is hard to satisfy; when it comes upon him he is like a starving man with a feast before him; he may have other business on hand, but it must wait. [5]
He said the Apaches used to annoy him all the time down there, and that he came as near as anything to starving to death in the midst of abundance, because they kept him so leaky with bullet holes that he "couldn't hold his vittles. [5]
One thing follows another, misfortune is heaped on misfortune, and on whom do the curses of the starving people fall? [10]
As a starving animal snatches at the first food offered it, he stooped, with a rattle in his throat, seized the bottle, uncorked it, put it to his lips, and drank--drank--drank. [11]
He turned out and went up Merchant street, still ciphering; and chewing a bit of stick, as is the way of starving men. [5]
Another, worn out and starving, gave up by and by, and laid down to die, but after two or three weeks of incredible hardships, the third reached the settlements of California exhausted, sick, and his mind deranged by his sufferings. [5]
That is wise, and before I will see my great love for Daphne transformed to hate, I will again try the starving which, while I was a sculptor at Rhodes, I learned tolerably well. [10]
One must make allowances for a parental instinct that has been starving for twenty-five or thirty years. [5]
The books were all of one breed--shipwrecks; people lost in deserts; people shut up in caved-in mines; people starving in besieged cities. [5]
They were starving --actually starving--and he ate for both, and--" "Shucks! [5]
I am merely a starving beggar standing outside the door of plenty--obstructed by a Yale time-lock which is set for Jan. 1st. [5]
He was exhibited, a month ago, with some other antiquities, for the benefit of a recent Member of the Cabinet's conscience that was starving in exile. [5]
We are breeding a million degenerate citizens by starving them, to say nothing of the effect of disease and bad air, of the constant fear of poverty that haunts the great majority of homes. [9]

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