Starving Sentence Examples

No. I'm starving right now.

Their men were practically starving, though their rearguard showed a brave front.

So it's you who's starving us to death!

You know, you're not exactly a starving artist.

They lived in very different circles, one surrounded by dukes and earls, the other by starving pamphleteers and indexmakers.

If you have no food and are starving, you might invade your neighbor and take his food.

If politicians are demonstrably good at one thing, it is getting elected, and people who are starving don't normally re-elect their representatives.

I’m starving! I haven’t eaten anything since breakfast.

Even so, it was as if a something had been lifted from her chest, allowing the flow of oxygen and blood to a starving brain.

He was starving, teased by the snack-sized drink he'd taken from Jessi.

Funds were immediately raised by sympathizers for alleviating the sufferings of the starving victims. At the same time an appeal, written by Tolstoy and some of his friends, requesting the help of public opinion in favour of the oppressed Doukhobors, was circulated in St Petersburg and sent to the emperor and higher government officials.

You must be starving.

He must be starving.

No, he was starving.

It was with the utmost difficulty that he could keep his army from starving.

The people were starving.

The death of Waldemar in 1293, the starving to death of Dukes Waldemar and Eric in 1318, the marriage and the deaths both of Charles IX.

She moved to the fridge and opened it, still starving.

The object of this is to prevent the plant from starving by the water applied all running off by way of the new soil, and not penetrating the original ball of earth.

These railways were built by the national government after the drought of 1877-1878 to give work to the starving refugees, and are now operated under leases.

It is a paradoxical fact, that the supply of the stomach even from the substance of the starving individual's body should tend to prolong life.

She wandered the mansion as she often did, restless and starving.

Was she destined to spend the rest of her life starving?

It was too fanciful to look so far ahead when he needed to determine how to prevent his people from starving.

I'm starving, and Rachel is almost ready for that taco seasoning.

He wiped his face and walked into the kitchen, starving.

But there can be little doubt that the population of England and Wales increased very slowly for centuries, owing largely to want of intercommunication, which led to famines, more or less severeit being a common occurrence that, while one county, with a good harvest, was enjoying abundance, the people of the adjoining one were starving.

This error they realized too late, and endeavoured by fixing the resurrection for another day to gather the clans, but blank despair had taken the place of hope and faith, and it was only as starving suppliants that the Amaxosa sought the British.

Anarchy and state interference having combined to check the trade in necessaries, the government undertook to feed the people, and spent huge sums, especially on bread for the starving inhabitants of Paris.

Turned on and starving, she gingerly crawled across the bed and settled beside him on her belly, pausing guiltily before lapping up the bubbles of blood.

By the end of April, over 1 million GBP of supplies had been air dropped to the starving refugees.

Special high fat diets can help to keep the body 's energy needs supplied whilst starving the tumor.

He has taken food from his starving babies to give to an idol that does not consume it.

Starving women, female athletes and anorexics with low fat stores experience secondary amenorrhea.

This is an edited extract from Starving Amidst Oceans of Energy by Silvia Hartmann, PhD.

Far from starving the beast, the Tories seem hesitant even to put it on a diet.

They care about the starving millions in the Third World.

Get your finger out, we 're starving hungry here.

Despite nearly starving himself to the point of death neither of these helped him find the peace he desired.

No more will we periodically have pictures paraded across our television screens of starving fly covered children suckling up to their starving mothers.

In their dormitory we found chocolate, sausages, tins of sardines, and very comfortable beds, whilst the other prisoners were starving.

He used the rhetorical device pathos in his email campaign to plead for higher donations to support the starving kittens.

Still others say fasting is counterproductive, because you're starving your body and your body's natural reaction after the fast will be to gain weight as quickly as possible.

However, this has nothing to do with the acai fruit, but is a direct result of starving your body of essential nutrients.

So, when you don't sleep, you find yourself starving, desperately searching your refrigerator for food.

The amount of grain necessary to feed the animals could instead feed many of the starving people around the world.

Firstly there is the occasion when Esau comes home from hunting starving hungry.

The most powerful thing the pro-GM lobby say is that GM is the only way to feed the starving.

Because the Kabul regime has so badly mismanaged the economy, the Afghan people are starving.

We have just mismanaged agricultural land to the extent that we are starving our own people.

In the State farm he was also given excellent meals, in contrast to the starving peasants.

If there is only one banana in your hand, will you give it to a starving African refugee or a lovely chimpanzee?

Their land and, livestock taken away from them, they have been condemned to the status of starving, landless serfs.

The first shipload of grain that came for the starving Irish was from India.

When the African governor Heraclius declared against him, Phocas was deserted by the starving populace of Constantinople, and deposed with scarcely a struggle (610).

The colony which he afterwards took out from Spain was a complete failure, and is only remembered now from the name of " Port Famine," which Cavendish gave to the site at which he found the starving remnant of Sarmiento's settlers.

But the Russians and the soldiers were resolved to continue the campaign, and working in collusion they put pressure on the not unwilling representatives of the civil power to facilitate the supply and equipment of such troops as were still in the field; they could not refuse food and shelter to their starving countrymen or their loyal allies, and thus by degrees the French garrisons scattered about the country either found themselves surrounded or were compelled to retire to avoid that fate.

Many of the people Borlaug worked with at this time were poor, even starving.

Just with starving, you can gain weight.

She wouldn't be a starving actress for long.

As it needs a little starving to induce it to bloom freely in beds and masses, the soil must be rather poor.

While she may not have the stick-thin bikini model body that is so prevalent today, she knows she is an athlete and has publicly stated she is not interested in starving herself for an unrealistic size.

Many creative writers who couldn't get published found themselves fitting the stereotypical label of a "starving artist."

In general, most freelance writers fall somewhere in between, making a living while not striking it rich or starving to death.

While most professionals strive to buy the industry's best supplies, many tattoo tools and machines can be cost-prohibitive for the starving artist who has little more than talent to invest in a new creative venture.

Calorie for calorie, this can be a wasteful practice, and with many people starving in the world, this is a viable concern, although distribution realities should also be considered.

Well, maybe okay is not the right word, but I've decided not to spend a good portion of my life starving myself to be a Sports Illustrated cover model.

Some bingers are so desperate to lose weight that they will binge because they are starving, but then they will purge in some way to "atone" for having consumed such great quantities of food.

Embarking on an exercise regimen, while simultaneously starving yourself only signals your body to hold on to its fat reserves.

The combination of starving the yeast while aiding their "enemies" should bring rapid results with massive yeast die-off.

When this happens, your body is designed to protect your energy storage (fat) and your metabolism will kick into survival mode because it thinks you're starving.

When used properly, social media websites might help put an end to the term "starving artist."

In fact, I think Uncle Fabrice had him convinced that he couldn't sell a cheeseburger to a starving man.

You're not starving yourself, are you?

The people are already starving.

That she, a starving artist who'd been dragged across the universe because her best friend felt sorry for her, was the key to saving an entire race of people was unimaginable.

We read in a papyrus of a strike of starving laborers in the Theban necropolis who would not work until corn was given to them, and apparently the government storehouse was empty at the time, perhaps in consequence of a bad Nile.

Wycliffe was a metaphysician and a theologian, and had to invent a metaphysical theory - the theory of Dominium - to enable him to transfer, in a way satisfactory to himself, the powers and privileges of the church to his company of poor Christians; but his followers were content to allege that a church which held large landed possessions, collected tithes greedily and took money from starving peasants for baptizing, burying and praying, could not be the church of Christ and his apostles.

She was associated with Louisa Twining and Florence Nightingale; and in 1877-1878 raised the Turkish compassionate fund for the starving peasantry and fugitives in the Russo-Turkish War (for which she obtained the order of the Medjidieh, a solitary case of its conference on a woman).

One bad plague or invading horde would leave pretty much everyone starving.

I require of a visitor that he be not actually starving, though he may have the very best appetite in the world, however he got it.

Who is it that's starving us? shouted Denisov, hitting the table with the fist of his newly bled arm so violently that the table nearly broke down and the tumblers on it jumped about.

As a result, starving yourself won't do anything but give you a headache.

What's the purpose of starving yourself?

Throughout he kept up his work of relief, and at the beginning of 1921 was collecting funds as chairman of the European Relief Council, for the starving children of central Europe.

Well, I'm starving and if you don't stop that, I will most certainly ruin these eggs and have to start over.

The Prussian headquarters, however, spent the 12th and 13th in idle discussion, whilst the troop commanders exerted themselves to obtain some alleviation for the suffering of their starving men.

Between 1811 and 1814 hands of so-called Luddites, starving operatives out of work, scoured the country, smashing machinerythe immediate cause of their misfortunesand committing every sort of outrage.

His expostulations perhaps prove him to have been " the best general in his army," but he was dragged northwards to Inverness, and with depleted ranks of starving men, outworn by the fatigue of a long night's march to surprise Cumberland at Nairn, he stood on Culloden Moor in defence of Inverness, his base and only source of supplies (16th of April 11746).

He was indefatigable, in war as in peace, in parading and inspecting; the weary and starving soldiers were forced to turn out amid the marshes of the Dobrudscha as spick and span as on the parade grounds of St Petersburg; but he could do nothing to set order in the confusion of the commissariat, which caused the troops to die like flies of dysentery and scurvy; or to remedy the scandals of the hospitals, which inflicted on the wounded unspeakable sufferings.

His people were starving as the planet died, and soon, the Council would realize the planet produced no ore without its rightful ruler.

Owing to the starving condition of its defenders, and aided by the treachery of Giovanni Gambacorti, they entered the city in triumph on the 9th of October, and sought to "crush every germ of rebellion and drive out its citizens by measures of the utmost harshn=ss and cruelty."

The first thing done at his instance was to relieve the starving populace within and without the walls; shops were opened to give work to the unemployed; all taxes, especially those weighing on the lower classes, were reduced; the strictest administration of justice was enforced, and all men were exhorted to place their trust in the Lord.