| 单词 | starve |
| 例句 | Just around this time last year, I was starving to death here in Bergen-Belsen, doubting whether I would even live. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z He had not trusted his mother to keep him from starving. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Awful stories about starving Belgians and cruelties of war. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z With no prospect of relief in sight, he was content to starve his rival out. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Looks like I won't be starving to death on Sol 400 after all. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z “How old are you? Fourteen? Fifteen? You look so starved, I can’t tell.” Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z “They starved him, the animals! And took his clothes! Come here, darling. I want to touch you.” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “We shall starve if we don’t!” said the Centipede. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z Lewis Powell, starving after three days of sleeping in the woods, instantly realizes he has made an error. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z The mines stay shut for two weeks, and by that time half of District 12 is starving. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z “I must repay a debt, Just Sal. I wagered Captain William Farrar that the British would not dare hold this ridiculous birthday celebration. It’s a slap in the face to the people who are starving.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z Of course they had to try to steal something—they were starving, after all—and the SS would never miss the little they could take. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z Mom gets up early and drags us out on Thanksgiving Day loaded with plastic foam coolers, like we’re going to starve right there on Fifth Avenue. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z “And maybe a cookie or something, please? I’m starving!” Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z Many starved to death or died of disease. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z “But what if his radio’s broken and he’s out there starving to death?” Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z Poor countries had it particularly bad, and people there often starved or were malnourished. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z "That is not the Old Way. Have you forgotten? Ironmen fight with swords and axes, not by flinging rocks. There is no glory in starving out a foeman." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z He came out of the surf exhausted and starving and naked. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Hazel wanted to tell her no, to tell her to stop wondering at phantoms, because she was freezing to death and maybe starving, and they needed to find someone who could help her. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z “You bloody crows are starving us to death.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z People goggled through the bars at him as he lay, starving and weak, on a bed of straw. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z According to the family story, Samuel called the family together, girls and boys, and made them promise to take care of Joe after he was gone, for if they did not Joe would surely starve. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z I would not have my sister thinking she needed to starve to stay with me. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z I could not let him starve, no matter what he had done. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z They weren’t absolutely at the mercy of their merciless climate any longer; a bad harvest would not starve a whole province, or a bad winter isolate every city. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z “Well…If I write them down, then if people are starving and they find my notes, they’ll know they can live on onions.” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z He might prefer to cut the castle off from the outside world and starve out its defenders. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “Gardens—where we grow the crops. Water’s pumped in through pipes in the ground—always has been, or we’d have starved to death a long time ago. Never rains here. Never.” The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z The prince, he knew, had never been starved enough to pick out wildlife from his grub. The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z I searched for strength somewhere, someplace inside me that had not been starved or fever-burned or beaten or afraid. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He would let thee starve and pine — A callow,^ shallow, pampered youth. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z Slowly my starved body responded to food and overcame the lean years of Mississippi, Arkansas, and Tennessee, counteracting the flesh-sapping anxiety of fear-filled days. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Campion’s suggestion was that they should simply starve the warren out. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Yet even with her food, my face swelled and my belly stuck out, something that often happens to starving children. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z Shin came to believe that he would never starve. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z There are hardly fifty of us left, and those that are left are half starved and weak. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z I always wonder if my face looks like I’m constantly starving. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z “And what would I do there,” said Puli contemptuously, “in these green fields of yours I know nothing about! What is more, they are not even yours, do you want me to starve with you?” Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z “They fed each other! That’s the difference between heaven and hell! In hell we starve! In heaven we feed each other!” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z But now that they mentioned it, I felt like I was starving. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z There were no harvests of any kind that year and everywhere people starved and were hungry and were angry at what had befallen them yet again. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z Coraline stared at the breakfast, hating herself for giving in so easily, but she was starving. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z They drank and shopped, starved and scrubbed and obsessed. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z One hunger sharpened another hunger, and one crime blotted out the one before it, and the little crimes committed against those starving men flared into one gigantic maniac crime. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z “I’m starved,” I say, just as if there isn’t some sweaty boy staring at me. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z Big Ma cooked the food in the food groups and said, “Kids are starving in Africa, India, and China, so eat every bit.” P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z They are all rather feeble, for they only get enough nourishment to keep them from starving. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z I must look a ragged thing, and starved, she thought, but if the days stay warm, I will not freeze. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The children slurp the porridge and complain they didn’t get enough, they’re starving with the hunger. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z “I’m starving, but I’m not sure any of this is actually food,” she says. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z Prisoners were often kept in barbed-wire compounds, flogged, tortured, starved and hung from trees, and those who died buried secretly in unmarked graves. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z It fit me better than it ever had, and I realized suddenly that, even though I was thin and starving, I had still grown. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z They were beaten, starved, and forced to watch their loved ones killed before their own eyes by Hitler’s troops. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z “But what if we are? If were not prepared, we’ll surely freeze or starve.” Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z He had made up his mind that he would never eat it, even if he were starving. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z Our family is slowly starving to death and yet, each day, the government reduces our food ration. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Say you are poor and starving as we were. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z “The War ruined us. It ruined many families. People were starving. Making one’s debut would have been...unseemly.” The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z The pension might go with me to keep me from starving. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z Instead of having fluctuating populations that periodically outran their resources and starved, they maintained smaller populations that enjoyed an abundance of food in good years and a sufficiency in bad years. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “Darling, you never know how hungry fishing might make you; I don’t want to be worrying about my only grandson starving down there on the Yazoo. Believe me, it’ll all get eaten.” Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z After four days she had been indistinguishable from the pigs, filthy, foul-smelling—and starving. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z I might be able to make it by nearly starving but not quite dying. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z I was beginning to wonder if he was starving himself. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z Her wrist and ribs and cheek and foot hurt, but it was her stomach that was making the most noise: she was starving. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z And men went to and from town by boat and by raft, and there were those who starved as they ever had. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z There was enough food there to keep a starving family for a week. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z I did not like it, but there was only one thing I could do to keep from being a party to it: I could quit and starve. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z A lot of people point out in defense of the national parks that they have been starved of funds, and this is indubitably so. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z I mean, I know I’m not some starving kid who has to wash clothes in the Ganges for a nickel, but today just sucks. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z “You are a serving girl delivering a tavern loaf to the starving prisoners. You don’t know about the note.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z “Seriously, is anyone going to make anything for dinner? I'm starving.” Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z I was starving—I had been without food for days now, with only snow to eat each morning before we began to walk again—but all I wanted to do was sleep. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z Lying about how much they’d worked, about how much quota they’d filled, about whether they were afraid, about whether they were living fat or starving. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z It’s the break between classes during Sunday school, and I’m starving even though it’s only eleven a.m. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z "Remember, Iris is a tumbler; he might have to drive a few days to get it. And I'm guessing it's hard to control a rover when you're literally starving to death." The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z They climbed the front steps of their building, which had once looked so starved and severe to Emily. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z Dennis almost starved to death fooling around with that music, which is why I never wanted you fooling around with it when you decided to make a living at it. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z In a maze of colour and guy-ropes, of tent-pegs and tall spears, of chessplayers and sutlers, of tapestried interiors and of gold plate, Arthur of England had sat down to starve his friend. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z When a mother put charcoal on her child’s face, it was a sign that the child was ready to starve for a vision, for power. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z They lived in splendor but were starving for new faces and new stories. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z ‘Doctor Warren, you’ve a young family. You know quite well, if you get killed they may literally starve.’ Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Perhaps someone was starving someplace because of him. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z You have to scoop up every workbook as soon as it hits the ground like you’re starving. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z “Describe this boot to me, then! What kind of a pitiful salesman are you? No wonder you’re starved for customers.” Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z “I would have starved or frozen to death.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Many were sick, most were starved, and all were doomed to die. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Tidal waves were rising and, like starving mouths, swallowing morsels of land down dark blue throats. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z “Nobody in Germany starves, and few, if any, go hungry,” he wrote. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z The fellows over there are well looked after; they fare magnificently, as against us, poor starving wretches, with our turnip jam; they can get all the meat they want. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z “Kill the flies and you starve the cats,” she said. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Unable to hold anything in their systems, many of them starved to death, even with food right in front of them. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z “We work morning, noon, and night planting these crops and now that they are ripe we’re told we can’t eat them. We are all starving.” First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z With many tears and in badly broken English, the mother told of the disgrace and of the father’s plan to starve the girl and the unborn child to death. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z She sucks them outside in to look like a starved person. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z I thought it was very funny when snack time rolled around and one of my kindergarten friends exclaimed, “Finally! I’m starving!” Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z The most relentless of his new fears was that they would starve. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z Though the queen had let the Astapori starve outside her walls to keep the bloody flux from spreading, it was spreading nonetheless. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z He was starving, and he had a feeling Vikus wasn’t the kind of guy to leave out any details. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z He must come to battle soon, or starve. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Still, it was hot, and I was starving as I scooped it up, sitting cross-legged on her counter. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z Meantime, the afternoon advanced, while I thus wandered about like a lost and starving dog. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z “You need to see them—starving, ’bout naked, whipped, dragged, bit by dogs...You need to see them.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z Before her stepmother locked the door after her, she said, “You’ll starve in there before you speak to me like that again.” Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z There was no need to starve, so she ate the stew and mashed potatoes with relish. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Some say that Pythagoras starved himself, but the most common versions all say that beans were his undoing. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z The difference it made was startling, as though a person ten years younger were shining through the starved mask; for a moment, he was recognizable as the man who had laughed at Harry’s parents’ wedding. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z “Don’t be ridiculous. Of course they did. They starved, or they died of thirst. Wild animals ate them, sooner or later. That was the point.” The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z As I understand by report I am much charged with starving the colony, I did always give every man his allowance faithfully, both of corn, oil, aqua vitae, etc., as was by the council proportioned. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z The guy was too busy trying to feed breakfast to an army of starving Gladers. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z And there are those below the battlements of this your confectionary keep who starve. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z We are lucky because this work will keep us from starving. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z “If I’d known how valuable food packets were, I probably wouldn’t have eaten so many, starving or not. I don’t even like it anymore. The worst was SpagBol for breakfast.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z Wang Lung and his family had come from a country where if men starve it is because there is no food, since the land cannot bear under a relentless heaven. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z She was looking at him, her eyes liquid with things unsaid, and she made him feel whole again, made him remember how starved he was for something simple and pure. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z “To feed him is more important than not to steal. I do not steal my whole life. For myself, I would starve first. But Akira must eat.” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z He went to no houses of the village and when they came to him, those who were left of the winter’s starving, he was surly with them. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z He sat down and began at once, “Well, and beyond the starving of people, which is no news, the greatest news was the robbery at the House of Hwang.” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z If in good years they had settled in villages, grown crops, and produced babies, those large populations would have starved and died off in drought years, when the land could support far fewer people. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z He was starved and felt half dead as he built up the fire and dug out spaghetti noodles and a can of sauce. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z Since the day we first arrived in Ro Leap five months ago, the chief’s steady supply of leftovers has kept us from starving. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The country was starved of hope, cars stuck for days in long, sweaty petrol lines, pensioners raising wilting placards demanding their pay, lecturers gathering to announce yet one more strike. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z The images of Africa on American TV were all the same: There were the ads for charity groups showing a white lady holding a starving black child, flies landing all over the kid. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z “I’m starving,” said Bunny with his mouth full. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z “Maybe they figured you’re too starved and tired to fight much longer.” My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “I brought them back. Little guy was starved for them,” Johnny says. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z Another’s brother had been starved to death in a closet. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z “I’m starving! All I’ve had since I bled half to death is a couple of toadstools!” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z “Yes. Some say that it’s the ghost of a student who got lost in the building and starved to death.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z To keep from starving, they had already eaten their store during the lean moon. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z “I want to grab some breakfast. I’m starving.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z If he had stayed, he would have starved in other ways. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z “You can stay or whatever, but I’m starving. See you later.” Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z The twins followed, eyes fixed on their boat with unwavering concentration, starving puppies expecting to be fed. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The last free king of Astapor, screaming naked in the pit as he was set on by a score of starving dogs. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z My mates at work lent me money and stole fish for my dinner, so that I got re-registered before I starved; but I had heard the lesson. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z This is the body that almost starved, that was ravaged by typhus. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z In danger of starving, he used the only other skill he had, straying into carnival bullrings and cow-town clubs to moonlight as a prizefighter. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z “You could live in a gopher hole. You’d be starving, so that would be perfect, because then you’d be so skinny you could fit right down there all snuggly in their little tunnels.” Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z "We better take it slow on that stew. Remember the first night on the train? The rich food made me sick and I wasn't even starving then." The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z Money could help hospitals and disaster victims and starving orphans. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z I reckon Miss Love was pure starved for company, because when we got to the front veranda, she sat down in the swing, patted the cushion beside her, and said come sit a while. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z He had regained enough weight not to look starved. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z That boy ended up starving in an alley. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Find extra food so you do not starve to death. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z Maybe it’s that we are all so starved for something good to happen that we want to be part of it. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z After that scene at lunch with Zara, I hadn’t been able to finish my cheese sandwich, and now I was starving. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Then the people as well as the animals begin to starve. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z It was as if he had come across refugees from a Nazi concentration camp, and concluded that they belonged to a culture that had always been barefoot and starving. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Kissed her like he was starved and she was something to eat. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z “The reason so many people are starving is because we’ve wrecked the planet. The Earth is dying, you know? 'It’s time to leave.” Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Then before two days were passed his uncle was at him again and again for silver and Wang Lung shouted at last, “Well, and shall we all starve soon?” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z "Look," he said, "I'm starving. Perfectly famished. I don't know if you—if stars—eat, or what they eat. But I won't have you starving yourself." Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z After all, Father’s family might be as vicious as a pack of starving hyenas. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z “How are we supposed to wait—with all of you eating like starving hyenas? I suppose he plans to push up the price, the dirty child murderer!” A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z She didn’t eat them unless she was starving. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z “I’m starved,” he said, and sat down at the table. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Mollie’s parents were warned that if they didn’t comply, the government would withhold its annuity payments, leaving the family starving. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z By February he’d run out of food and starved, apparently without making any attempt to save himself, despite the fact that there was another cabin stocked with meat just three miles downstream. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z We starving prisoners stood at attention, with our hunched shoulders and gaunt faces and oversized, filthy clothes, while healthy, well-fed children and their mothers came to see the animals. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z But in his family, that would just be Matthew or Mark, and they were hardly starving. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z “Do you plan to starve an old woman?” When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z But the money ran out and we were slowly starving to death. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z So Mormont had been chained to an oar, beaten within an inch of his life, starved, and branded. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z We are going to starve to death because of this idiot. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z “They look starved,” Zooey said, but withdrew his hand from the fish food. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z They kept some for themselves and slipped the rest to starving friends. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z But Christ couldn’t want them to starve when there was food available. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z Gray rose to his haunches, agitated, and shared the behavior he had seen: A human turning away a starving neighbor, acting as if there were no food in his larder when it was full. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Once, when he had been a Four; he had said, just prior to the midday meal at school, “I’m starving.” The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z The commander said that his men had been starving and thirsty, exhausted from many days of battle, and had decided to take the oasis so as to be able to return to the war. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z There's usually a lag of a few days between the end of the competition and the presentation of the victor so that they can put the starving, wounded, mess of a person back together again. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z And Sam and Mom never let us starve, even if we have to do without TV or a toaster for a little while. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z It was also during that time that a starving young artist, who had been given lodging in the house out of pity, paid for his stay by painting the only extant portrait of Clara. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Before she could answer he snapped off the TV and the light, pulled the door shut and bounded downstairs announcing, “I’m starving! Let’s eat!” Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z The last thing Josiah did was lean out the window of the truck and tell Ulibarri, “Don’t starve them to death.” Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z They craved the book the way starving people crave food. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z What could a soldier do who had killed people for no good reason and then returned starving to his country? A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z “I’m starved; but don’t share your lunch. I have some money, just tell me which road takes you toward Delhi.” My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z She had to rest frequently on her foraging expeditions, and she realized that she was slowly starving. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z I realized then: They would beat us and starve us and shoot us like we didn’t matter, but they would always keep track of us. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z "Does honor stop at the Bloody Cate? You accuse me of crimes, I deny them, so you throw me into an open cell to freeze and starve." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Veturius as a boy, afraid and starved, determined not to die. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z They have sat by as she almost starved to death. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z “You come out of the water and I’ll starve you all, understand!” their guard shouted. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z “I didn’t finish my breakfast—can we get something somewhere? I’m starving.” The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z I feel sorry for the rich people who will get up in the morning and go to the door and find their bread missing but I can’t let myself starve to death. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z People in solitary jobs like shepherds or swineherds tend to either enjoy their own company, or be starved for conversation. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z In a few hours, she’ll be starving, but right now, even the smell of the food could make her vomit. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z The greenish light still seeped from the marks on the floor—marks Cain had etched with his own blood—illuminating the creature who stared at her with those starving, relentless eyes. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z “But what would they do? Hitch us to a pickup and drag us behind? Shoot me in my yard front a my kids? Or just starve us to death?” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z Tally wondered if, here in the Smoke, Shay’s undereating would get worse and worse, until she wound up starving herself. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z In a country of free speech and press, they starved him out for expressing views not in harmony with their prejudices. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z “I can quit to make sure you and your brother don’t starve.” On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z He had finished his steak, sliced and devoured it like a starving man. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z She herself had been hungry a few times, but she’d never been starving. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Some people sold all the clothes they had and were left naked and starving. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z She used it, strangely enough, to procure food for her starving father. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Again, the birds fell on the corn with starving cries. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z “He gave me two, and I have eaten one. Take food when you can get it and never question. Many men starve to death here.” Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z “How very thoughtful of you. I’m sure the rest of your party would be happy to see me starve.” Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z “He’ll sit, see if he don’t. Try and starve us out.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z They no longer had to fear starving to death. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z “So what? We’re starving. I’m withered like grass, too,” said the bald man. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z Surely if she could keep the girl at hard labor and half starve her, too, that hateful beauty of hers would soon be lost. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Plants and animals are dying off in record numbers, and lots of people are starving and homeless. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z “Or they could be sick or starving or killing one another off.” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z Fve read about how they would torture, starve, and mutilate people’s bodies to something that was not recognizable as a human being. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z He could feel that mad stinking creature from the crate starving for blood inside him, its sunken features lurking behind his own face, but maybe it didn’t have to be like that. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z The Great War had whipped a starving, weary population into a murderous frenzy of discontent. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z "District Twelve. Where you can starve to death in safety," I mutter. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z After what seemed like hours of constant foraging she was still hungry—but not starving. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z I'm not going to slowly starve to death, I'll tell you that. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z I wonder if his kind eyes can see us starving. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “I’m starved. Do you have any cookies? I like chocolate chip cookies.” The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “I’m starving,” Doug said, flopping over on the grass like he was dying. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z Gogol takes a hit, but as he sits there, holding his breath, he regrets it—he is already starved. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z They will poison the water they will spin the water away and there will be drought the people will starve. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z Then she popped a handful of peanuts into her mouth and chewed ferociously, as if she were starving. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z Its three million people were slowly starving to death. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z “Half your bones are busted, your body is swollen like one huge mosquito bite, and you’re nearly starved to death. Believe me, Champ, you’re not okay.” Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z But finding the wallet made up for all that, plus now they weren't going to starve. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z To say “starving” was to speak a lie. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z I can’t have my poor, fatherless girls starve just to please Grandpa. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z While agricultural workers starved in Ukraine, record numbers of laborers produced factory goods. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z Yes, one would say that in this city there could be none who starved. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z Why are the killers starving us when all this is available? First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Wolf packs, starving bears just rising from their hibernation. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z If we did, my brothers would probably starve. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z She watched a video with a starving polar bear last weekend, and the next day she insisted on walking to school. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z Nobody was actually starving to death, but most were hungry a lot of the time. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “I’m starving to death,” he said, retying the knot of his bathrobe and pottering over to the refrigerator. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z “There’s not a bit of use you being starved when you get there,” she said. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z I think the field cricket would taste excellent if you were starving. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z Then they send starving rats down the pipe. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z "We fattened him up after the last war so he could come back now and starve us during this one." Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z After that, I or Mary Toy, one, had to take the pig and feed it some cow’s milk with a baby bottle so it wouldn’t starve to death. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z I look forward to sharing my writing, and no longer imagining myself as the “starving artist.” The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z In fact, if I had to synthesize my own enzymes, if I consciously had to remember and direct all the chemical steps required to get energy out of food, I would probably starve. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z I opened a box of hyperfood cubes, most of which I devoured, but some of which I got into him as a broth, for he looked near to starving. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z If you ingest too much swainsonine you are bound to starve, no matter how much food you put into your stomach. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Why do people have to starve when mountains of food are rotting away in other parts of the world? The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z An old man with a turnip cradled against his chest said, “You kill us, you starve us, now you want t’ make us slaves.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z At dusk Raji would appear, tired and cross and half starved, for he was counting every rupee until he had enough to return to his farm. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z He was always belated now, had been for years, and in the past people had been known to starve before he got there. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z “Let’s grab some food. I’m starving. Come on, rock star.” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z I had only grabbed this food to make them think I was really starved. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z I never starved for food till I got married. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z His body had been starved of oxygen, and the pressure had cracked several of his ribs. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Inside, looking more like a starved bird than anything else, was El Viejo. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z It also meant they weren’t going to starve or freeze to death in the street. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z I’m starving and the stew is so delicious — beef, potatoes, turnips, and onions in a thick gravy—that I have to force myself to slow down. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z “Figs! Do you have a fig? Please can I have a piece? I beg you. Only a little piece. I’m starving.” Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z “Plate, mate, fate, plate, ” I say as Gertie, biting my lips, gurgling, playing not so much Elliott’s adorable younger sister but, like, an idiot monkey starved of nutrients. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z I was happy to let the dog starve. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z I was starving like the rest of them, but I just sat there. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z The teachers descended upon me like starved vultures out of the sky. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z “There’s not a cent of your money on me. I’d starve first.” The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z The land was drying up the people and animals were starving. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z The cows would grow thin and sometimes starve to death. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Finally, I came to the city of Warsaw, where I learned to steal food to keep from starving. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z He looks like a starving man, like he could devour me all at once. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z They climbed the front steps of their building, which had once looked so starved and severe to Emily. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z I think back to the years of watching tributes starve, freeze, bleed, and dehydrate to death. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z He almost starved to death but somehow kept picking fights with me. Red Queen 2015-02-10T00:00:00Z “God, you’re making my choice look so bad. I’m starving and I go with the meat that will probably give me a heart attack and kill me anyway.” Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z When there is none, there is truly none and you starve. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z He was looking down into a kind of pit, an underground room, and lying on the floor some ten feet below, apparently fast asleep, thin and starved in appearance, was the real Mad-Eye Moody. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z The first was that I hadn't had lunch because of the whole running-out-of-school thing, and I was starving and wouldn't be able to eat until after practice. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z “Take something up to Noah so he doesn’t starve,” Rosa added, “and do your dishes. It’s not too hard to wipe dishes clean and put them in a dishwasher, Davis.” Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z Desperate and starving for something that they weren’t quite sure would come to them. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z Into this narrow triangle of greenery between a road and a river, surrounded by starving people. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z I hadn't had time to eat any breakfast at the hotel cafeteria that morning, except for a cup of overstewed coffee so bitter it made my nose curl, and I was starving. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z Others in the crowd shouted angrily that they were starving. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z From what we’d heard they were practically starving and hadn’t any clothes. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z These ones had perhaps starved to death, and so were eternally hungry. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z If anyone disobeyed them they could throw him into prison, or they could take his job away and starve him to death. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Yet they were always a little hungry, not starving, but with an emptiness inside them that was never quite assuaged. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z For clearly their thirst for gold was insatiable; they starved for it; they lusted for it; they wanted to stuff themselves with it as if they were pigs. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Those who do not freeze to death, starve. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z “Grandma, can you buy me snacks? I’m starving, and they got triangle kimbap in the store!” Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z General Pemberton, completely surrounded by Grant’s army, had been cut off from all supplies and had been starved into surrender. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z We were two emaciated mammals, parched and starving. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z Coming home, they would be slowed by thousands of free folk, many sick and starved. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z "Based on travel duration and the supplies their astronaut has remaining, any such probe would have to be launched within a month. Even then he would starve a little." The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z All the while, there's a fierce hollowness gnawing at my insides and I try to imagine a life of this, watching fine people eat while I nigh on starve to death. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z Skinny and stinking and starving and all the time next to a cute boy who I like so much, it hurts. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z "Too long. You'll starve yourself. Meera dribbled a little water down your throat, and we smeared honey on your mouth, but it is not enough." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z But the most noticeable thing to me about him was how thin and starved looking he was, all but for his belly. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z Though she is only a few inches smaller than me, she seems tiny somehow, her stick-thin body swimming in her dress, her face pinched and frightened, like that of a starved mouse. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z I hummed a stanza of Areida’s favorite song, a sad one, about a farmer whose family is starving. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z “All those years of starving myself and now I’m really starving.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z The women tell us we must be starving and they go into the kitchen. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z “It is not, but it mean more to me, Hanako. It mean much more to me. I will not sell even if I starve.” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z As the group was talking to Joana, a starving dog approached the sailor. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z After their wedding, Lord Ramsay had locked her away in a tower and starved her to death. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Or to starve yourself to death, as Jacob did presently. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z The whole country was powder then, and in ’61 I believe all the coyotes starved to death. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z "You make a very good point. There are starving and desperate people in this world, aren’t there?" A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z His hair was short and wild as porcupine quills, his face starved and sallow with grief. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z Another reason the Muslim community at large was embracing me was because they were simply starved for positive representation in the media. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z Even though we were close to starving at the end of the time in Brünnlitz, we managed to survive because Schindler chose to spend his fortune on buying us food. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z It wasn’t just keeping from starving—it was trying to save ahead, think ahead. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z Mam says,They get their appetites because they’re starving half the time. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z “Well, we can always live on the farm. I guess we won’t starve.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z They will kill the things they fear all the animals the people will starve. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z Since we are all supposed to be equal, if one person starves, then all should starve. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “What did we starve ourselves to send you to school for? Find a job or else get out of my house. I can’t go on feeding a bearded child.” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Bra Spider starved for a week as he readied himself. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z The 101st Long Range Air Regiment, as well as bombing, helped bring supplies by air to the blockaded and starving city of Leningrad. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z He made many a toast, laughed loudly at every jest, and attacked each dish like a starving man, but beside him the queen seemed as cold as an ice sculpture. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z They cowered on the ground in front of the Warlord, half starved and dull-eyed. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z “I’m supposed to set an example. Your father will throw me into the street when he finds out. I’ll starve! Oh, woe is me!” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z “I’m starving. Besides, not everything here is bad. I bet this is where fairy people come for dinner. See, it even has a crank.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z I once saw a polar bear that had starved to death. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z The Lord in his wisdom gave money to very curious people, perhaps because they’d starve without. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Usually, I was starving by four o’clock, so on the way home from school I would beg Gay to stop for a burger. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z I dug into the food because I was starving. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z We did without the necessities of life and starved ourselves, but he never would. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z In pain, half starved, with a tapeworm and an eye infection, he collapsed on the road to town and was taken to the infirmary by a kindly widow. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z Their alternative—there was an alternative, of course, since Milo detested coercion and was a vocal champion of freedom of choice—was to starve. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z "Anyway, it ain't because your food is so good, it's just because I'm starving. I mean, it's good, but...," When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z I thought about my sour, shaky stomach that lurched between feeling starving and feeling pukey. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z But now she was heading off into the brush again, leaving her calf to starve. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z “You can’t do this. Please. You can keep this week’s pay, just let me keep my job. I need it. My family needs it. They’ll starve without me. I’m sorry.” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z My father had told me how Communist soldiers were trying to make the city of Wuchang surrender by starving it to death. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Hence all predators, even highly developed mammals such as cats, would starve. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z “Thousands of the free folk are gathered there, trapped and starving, and we have had reports of dead things in die wood.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z He turns and his smile is thin, starved for reason. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z There’s silence as we sigh in relief, then gobble some of our creation down like starving puppies. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z “You wouldn’t starve to death on Ma’s whey, like old Grimes did on his wife’s,” Pa said. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z Without grain in the silo, jars of olive oil in the cellar, cheese in the pantry and sausages hanging from the rafters, they would starve in bad years. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z “We don’t know what you have done, but we wouldn’t have you starved to death for it, poor miserable fellow-creatur.—Would us, Pip?” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z Papa always ate very quickly as if starving, with everybody watching him and waiting for him to finish. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Especially not after Jupe gobbled my naked body up with her eyes the way a starved sex goddess would. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z He was not starving, it was pointed out. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z Jamie was always low on steps after track practice; he was usually starving, his knees were killing him from crawling, and no one else was home yet. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z I would chant all day to show how holy I was, and the monks would keep me from starving. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z She started going at Pap ’bout how come he ain’t been paying what he was s’pose to and how close us and our animals was to starving and how she shouldn’t-a never married him. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z We can get it to you before you starve, but it’ll be tight. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z She hadn’t pictured herself confronting him caged and starving, hands bound, dressed in rags. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Even as he crammed meat down his throat he starved. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Napoleon, on the other hand, argued that the great need of the moment was to increase food production, and that if they wasted time on the windmill they would all starve to death. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z I watched powerful men count their money, and starving men count theirs. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “No starving, no dying from the summer sickness, no getting shot full of arrows.” Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z Would Dibdin let him starve if I stopped being his messenger? Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z “Pleased to make your acquaintance, Fred. Now then—do you folks know where there might be some dry food? I’m starving.” Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z “We are actually starving and wouldn’t mind some quiet time away from the team. Want to join us at Evanora’s?” Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z Millions of people were going hungry, and hundreds of thousands of them would starve to death. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z “If you were starving, I would kill as many bonobos as it took to keep you fed.” Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z Normally I hate him because he’s as mean as a snake during the season when he’s starving to death, trying to make weigh-in before the meets. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z “I had to take Meereen or see my children starve along the march.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “I’m starving. I want to get to the feast....” Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z Certainly they would not have wanted Gregor to starve to death, but perhaps they could not have endured finding out what he ate other than by hearsay. The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z The yanquis, rumors go, have ringed the island with nuclear poison, hoping to starve the people and incite a counterrevolution. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z A ritual that seeks to feed my mind and would starve my somewhat metaphorical soul. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Abbey had sunk her teeth into his left earlobe and was hanging on like a starved alligator. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z With the Unwomen, and starve to death and Lord knows what all? said Cora. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z There are no utensils to eat the porridge, so the options are use your hands or starve. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z “Do that one more time, you’re going to the Fire Swamp” is as common as “Clean your plate; people are starving in China.” The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z His mother, fearful that he would starve, resumed nursing him. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z I looked about me at the land and it was life to my starving spirit. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z The only thing to do is to treat each shift as a one-time-only emergency: you’ve got fifty starving people out there, lying scattered on the battlefield, so get out there and feed them! Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Jenna laughs, this person that is me, and calls, “He has a hundred quahogs, Mom! Put that down, or we’ll starve!” The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z Elizebeth was “starved for theater,” so she was thrilled to live in a city where they could attend performances “at least three times a week.” The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z “U-g-g-g-h-h-h,” gasped the bug, suddenly realizing that he was twenty-three times hungrier than when he started, “I think I’m starving.” The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z “My sister died of malnutrition at the camp at Terezín, near Prague. Left to starve, like so many others...” Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z Most kids got bounced off the crew by the time they hit their midteens, even if they starved themselves to keep their size down. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z Many Indigenous peoples were homeless and starving in their own homelands. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z She’s worn out and gasping for a cup of tea so would he drop his grand airs, boil the water for the tea and fry some bread before his two small sons starve to death. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z I was starving, and I knew I would die of hunger before the cold got me. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z He felt a little sick, and a little lightheaded, and he was starving. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z Somewhere along the way he saved up enough for these goats and now has something to do in his old age besides slowly starve to death. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z Angry, starving, sinister apparitions of people who’d never been happy when alive, much less dead. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z A way to plant hatred between the starving workers of the Seam and those who can generally count on supper and thereby ensure we will never trust one another. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z They were all dirty and poorly clothed and, by the looks of it, starving. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z She had starved before, when Connelly got it in his mind to punish the quarter for mischief and cut off rations. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z The boy was cursed and caned, slapped and starved. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z As though she was slowly starving to death. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z The mere sight of her grimy right hand with its black fingernails digging an ounce of Chocolate Fudge out of a jar would have caused a starving tramp to go running from the shop. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z ‘Another reason I’m a vegetarian. Anyway, the second hunter, who wasn’t allowed squirrel meat - he was starving. He just sat there clutching his stomach while his friend ate. Finally the first hunter started feeling guilty. “ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z “I hope there’s something good for lunch, I’m starving,” she added, and she marched off toward the Great Hall. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z That horrible woman would never have the chance to call me Mary because if I was starving I’d never work for her. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z “Look at her, honey! She was starving and cold. The homeless guy offered to sell her to me for ten bucks. What was I going to do, say no?” Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z If he got sick, really sick so he couldn’t move he might starve. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z Dozens of starving men fought desperately over a few crumbs. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z “The Indian, instead of starving to death...enjoys a steady income that turns bankers green with envy.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z “How can you starve your children?” my mother asked. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z As I continued to read, I got more and more upset: There were riots in the street because people were literally starving. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z “Sure—plus, we can get M&M’s there, and I'm starving.” Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z “His host lies not three days’ ride from here, snowbound and starving, and I for one am tired of waiting on his pleasure. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Cora had seen starving slaves with more meat on their bones. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z People were snowed in for weeks, some nearly starved. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z I let her in because I’m starved of motherly interest, and it feels nice that she wants to help. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z It had been scourged from him, starved from him, flayed from him. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The castle was starving; no good would be served by Jaime stealing food from their mouths. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The birds were starved, and many had died. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z As a further punishment for concocting lies about a big hare and a young mouse, Redtooth ordered that the twelve be starved until further notice. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z This doctor was of a race which for nearly four hundred years had beaten and starved and robbed and despised Kino’s race, and frightened it too, so that the indigene came humbly to the door. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z And with no rickshaws, and no one starving in public. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z “A starving man will steal food from babies.” My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Dany, starved, slid off his back and ate with him, ripping chunks of smoking meat from the dead horse with bare, burned hands. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z And yet, we have not all starved or frozen to death. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z “Now come along. Osh and I were too scared to eat, and I, for one, am starving.” Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z He was starving and this was not what he wanted to eat. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z “And do you talk of starving and then laugh at the same time! You fools, starve then!” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z One scientist believes they might someday starve whales to extinction. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z She says that’s just enough for all of us to starve on. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z Ilse checks my belly, tut-tuts, and shuts herself in her room to eat cake with a Nazi SS officer named Rolf while my thirteen starve in silence above her head. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z She quit eating, vowing to starve herself to death. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z Agnes opened her mouth like a starved baby bird, but she didn’t give a chirp. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z Other than a rabbit starving in the next room and an imminent attack on your salad bowl, nothing, I thought. Bunnicula 1979-03-01T00:00:00Z Who starves and tortures and kills us in the arena. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z By now, Spot was so sick and starved I could hardly stand to look at her. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z “Well, you haven’t starved to death or broken your necks,” Uncle observed, “which was more than I ever expected. Now.” Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z “They keep the lights off, and they crawl on the floor, away from the doors and windows. I don’t know how much food they got. Might be they’ll starve before the Feds give up.” Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z The Lannisters had piled brush around the tower's base and set it afire, but the stone would not bum, and Lorch did not have the patience to starve them out. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z We starve ourselves so we can fit into the perfect pair of jeans, we pollute our bodies with drugs to increase our muscles so we’ll look ripped without a shirt. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z Didn’t realize it until my brain said “food” and then all at once I’m starving. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z I am to follow like a starved dog the entrails of any personal affect. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z So I gave her an American dollar and she looked at it and said, “Syaujye”—Miss—“we are in America now. Even a beggar can starve on this dollar.” The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z “Are your Seven Kingdoms so different? There is no peace in Westeros, no justice, no faith ... and soon enough, no food. When men are starving and sick of fear, they look for a savior.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Drive them to the darkest corners of the kingdom, starve them, throw them in jail or put them out to war.” Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z He looks strong and healthy, so different from the sick, starving boy I knew in the arena, and you can barely even notice his limp now. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z Elsewhere, the exposed laths, themselves rotting away, showed through like the ribs of a starving animal. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z So he only nodded and thanked her, and she smiled, and the smile made him feel starved. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z “By sitting back while they’re murdered and starved? By loading them on trains to be...” The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z Even when the winter’s bad and others starve and freeze, We’ve porridge from the kennels — But we also have the fleas. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z Max needs a shave and a bath and a month of meals, but he doesn’t look like a starving Jew to me. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z We arrived home to a very special heroes’ welcome: the town had been starving outright for good scuttlebutt. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Rail stations, open-air markets, and back alleys in major towns became crowded with starving drifters. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Jesus, we still have to walk all the way to Classon Avenue and I have four starving children. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z The South was starving, its railroads and seaports gone; Grant was only a few miles from Richmond; Thomas was in Tennessee; and Sherman was roaring up through South Carolina. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z But for some reason all I can think of is old Cray, salivating over some poor, starving young woman. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z It has never been an economic proposition for an owner of cattle to starve his cows, so why should an owner of slaves starve them? The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Still, with many meals missed, my bones—like those of a starving animal—are nearly poking through my skin. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z “There’s bears and wolves and all manner of things, and if they weren’t eaten up the first day they’d starve to death.” The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z “But he does have coin? Upon his person? Because I cannot pay for so much as victuals now, the salt-meat is become so dear. We are starving. No person will extend us credit.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z We’d been waiting for more than an hour, starving for even the smallest scrap of news. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z “But you do realize that nearly half the people on this planet are starving, right?” Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Do not ask me, reader, to give a minute account of that day; as before, I sought work; as before, I was repulsed; as before, I starved; but once did food pass my lips. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z Bobby welcomed their arrival since he was starved for companionship. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Students here are like starving sharks when it comes to sedition. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z As his train passed one ranch in Colorado, Joe watched men shooting starved cattle and tipping the carcasses into huge trenches. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z “If Ojukwu wanted to stop the starving, he could simply say yes to a food corridor. Those kids don’t have to be eating rodents,” the redhead said. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z “Maybe not for a few days. But once there is no government and ten million starving people in Kinshasa? The first thing that happened in ’94 was they tried to eat the zoo animals. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z “We have to trust someone, don’t we? Or else we’re just walking around in a wasteland, possibly starving to death.” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z In the morning I was stiff and sore and starving—but I was alive, and more determined than ever to finish what I’d started. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z "Your poor father's probably starving; he's been so busy on the phone, changing appointments and all." The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z And after so much activity, even Perry felt starved. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z She pressed her hand to her belly as she spoke, and the men were ashamed before her and went out one by one, for they were not evil men except when they starved. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z The scene was pitiable—the violence earnest, but with all the lassitude of the starving, peered down upon by triumphant rebels, Olympian in the dusk. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z There were more starving Russians with faces like radium dials. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z He had spoken one word that touched the very soul of me, but I could not talk to him, could not let him know that I was starving myself to save money to go north. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z I had heard of runaway slaves starving before they reached freedom, or poisoning themselves because they were as ignorant as I was about which wild plants were edible. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z Most of them starved, froze to death, or were sold into slavery. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z I didn’t realize until now how starved I've been for human closeness. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z “I’m starved for a taste of good syrup after that imitation stuff they served at that hospital. Sort of watered-down mixture they had. Had it on pancakes last Sunday.” Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z “Then starve,” he said and rode away without a backward glance. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z When time passed and the animals had evidently not starved to death, Frederick and Pilkmgton changed their tune and began to talk of the terrible wickedness that now flourished on Animal Farm. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z Did the last Greenland Norse starve to death, attempt to sail off, intermarry with Eskimos, or succumb to disease or Eskimo arrows? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “Probably for the same reason you are. The result of poor hygiene on a starving body at the end of its tether.” Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z “I’d rather swim through a pool of starving crocodiles,” Mother said. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z My mother manages to feed me bits of food and sips of tea while they work on me, but by the time the shoot is over, I’m starving and exhausted. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z “People like this thief come and harvest everything so that we will starve to death.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z They wouldn’t get fat as kittens, but at least they wouldn’t starve. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z “But later, all those books made me puke. The heroines were so effing cheerful all the time. They were paragons of self-sacrificing womanhood. Like, ‘I’m starving to death! Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z But some watch us, the way starving foxes might watch a lion—hungry for what we have. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z By the time I get on and off the turnpike, I’m starving, so I go to a drive-thru and then cruise the fraternity and sorority houses looking for those familiar Greek letters. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z Mama and Lisbeth had kept Spot’s calf from starving by letting it suck another cow. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z “There was not much to go around, but we enjoyed it nonetheless. When you are starving, horse meat is not so bad.” Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z I said I was starving and then out of the blue he announced to his wife that he liked me. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z “Where on earth have you been? The food has all gone. Luckily today I was able to get near, otherwise we should have starved.” Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z “Those who don’t die of the fever are beginning to starve. You’ve seen the rats?” Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He ate them as if he were starving. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z “It’ll do. I’m starving. It’s intense in there. Got to keep up my strength.” If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z But look at her now—she was starving all the time, and she was still enormous. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z I took a breath the way a starving man might outside a bakery. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z His wife asked me, “Why are people in the world starving when America has so much surplus food? What do they do, dump it in the ocean?” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z I did what I could to help, but most of them were simply starving, and I had no food for them. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z “This girl’s starving, Tfa—how can you keep her malnourished like this? Don’t you feed her?” The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The difference was that Flossie Gaddis was starved about men and Sissy was healthily hungry about them. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z In 1957 southern West Virginia, you wouldn’t likely starve if you didn’t have any money. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z “Bid her see to it,” Ceres said, “that no abundance shall ever satisfy him. He shall starve in the very act of devouring food.” Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z They starved through winter and into spring, dodging German patrols, waiting for their next job. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Without the nitrogen-fixing bacteria, for example, plants would starve for want of nitrogen, though surrounded by a sea of nitrogen-containing air. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z “For the seeking of a piggy, there are many great lords in the forest, riding with frightening shouts. They would not be cruel to starving Gurgi—oh, no—they would feed him...” The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z By now, both of them would be screaming about dinner, how they were starving, and his mother would have another excuse for why she hadn’t put anything on the stove yet. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z Smells of frying bacon wafted through the air—Frypan and his crew trying to keep up with dozens of starving stomachs. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z Hanako could not believe their luck to find this woman in a starving country selling these beautiful cakes. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z I’m well fed and ugly, and they are starving. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z At least she wasn’t going to starve him. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “Poor Grendel will hang here and starve to death,” I told myself, “and no one will ever even miss him!” Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z That was the case with most of my friends, and we didn’t mind collecting cans of food to send to the starving kids of Wherever Starving Kids Were Hanging Out. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z “You shouldn’t have come here, Béene, but you are here and nobody in Kilanga wants you to starve. They understand that white people make very troublesome ghosts.” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z “Ah, but not when you buy it from men who are starving,” said the other man from the city. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z "Terrible situation. That poor man's going to starve." The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z “Were slowly starving to death, Ida. We won’t survive long on what we’re getting. We can either die peacefully or survive by any means necessary.” Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z The parched and starving earth was nothing to them. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z As long as there was any food at all, bad as it was, the cooks would not starve. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z If none of those things happen, I'll eventually run out of food and starve to death. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z I was not interested in starving, killing, slashing, depriving, maiming or punishing myself. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z It wasn’t until later in that year that I discovered the Gethenians have perfected the technique not only of perpetually stuffing, but also of indefinitely starving. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z "Thank you, oh Lord and Ty'ree, for getting me something good to eat before I starved to death dreaming of fish. Amen." Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z They were starving us and would probably dump us into the holes we dug. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z I remember once shortly after we were settled in Los Angeles, I tried to describe to a neighbor what it was like to be starving in the ghetto. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z If we eat this food too early, some of us will starve later. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z I have enough to last till launch, so I won't starve. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z “You’ll starve! Imagine eating nothing but warm puppies and raw meat!” In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z I could hear it blatting and racing around in the cow- pen, so starved it could hardly wait. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z Faerie fruit, which muddles the mind, which makes humans crave it enough to starve themselves for another taste, which makes us pliant and suggestible and ridiculous. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z I sat up and realized I was starving. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z "But if my math is right, he's doomed to starve to death before we can possibly help him. I'm not looking forward to the conversation." The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z “At least! What else am I going to live off? Do you want me to starve miserably?” The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z And I have to admit I never starved like a lot of people did. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Police believe that he is either trying to starve himself to death and cheat the chair, or that he is trying to excite sympathy for himself. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z “They bankrupt our country, starve our children. Your families will not be safe, this war will never end, until every...last...Jew...is dead!” The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z “If you were starving and somebody gave you the choice of one kind of meat to save yourself, what would you pick?” Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z “No one here will starve long as I have breath.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z For some reason I was starving, and I piled my plate with fried chicken, biscuits, mashed potatoes and gravy, string beans, okra. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z The woman looked like she was starving, her ribs thrusting out from her sides, her legs so thin that Tally wondered how they didn’t snap under her weight. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z “But do you know how long it took men to build it? Eight whole years. My goodness, I would have starved to death waiting that long. I can make a web in a single evening.” Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z “Might as well starve striking than working,” some said. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z He says, I can’t go in there starving with the hunger. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z Octavian attacked the walled city where they hid and would have starved them out if they had not surrendered. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z Ambuya said it was dangerous to eat too much after starving. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The thought of starving again on the run was not attractive, nor was the prospect of leaving behind the things they had purchased with their toil. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z “But that could take forever. I’m starving now? Miss Ohio cried. “ Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z Said so many crops was blowed away that lots of sharecroppers starved and even the Tanners got sunk so low they had to sell off some slaves. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z And my work shoes is so thin, they look like they starving to death. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z When they weighed too much, he reportedly cleaned their pockets of their pennies so they couldn’t buy food or locked them up until they starved down to the right weight. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z I know about this kind of story—the lonely look down upon the hungry; the hungry look down upon the starving. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z “Though be careful. Zu’s so starved for girl time that she might turn you into her own personal dress-up doll.” The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z The Soviet soldiers involved in this war found themselves in an icy stalemate, freezing and starving to death. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z Unless he worked up the courage to return, he would starve. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z “I have not been starving for more than a decade just to give in to a Dauntless woman with a leg injury,” Evelyn says. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z All said I was wicked, and perhaps I might be so; what thought had I been but just conceiving of starving myself to death? Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z So they starved and froze and died in the snow, their arms frozen outward, still begging. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z It was as if he were entranced and—yes, envious—like a starving man looking through a window at a banquet. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z “I thought I might scrape off some of his delicacy. He can starve on delicacy.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z It was as if Johnny had been starved before and never known it. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z “And what’s more, when your father gets back I don't want you telling him I’ve been starving you. Like the wicked stepmother in the fairy tale, you know.” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z They will come to the deep blue, where the whales sing their sad songs and starving sharks swim for miles in search of prey. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z And after a little while of this my brain and my body and every single inch of me that was alive was flooded with the feeling that I was starving, starving, starving for Edmond. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Returning, he gave the venison to his starving family and to Tallow, who shared it out to Auntie Muskrat, to LaPautre’s hungry children, and to Fishtail. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z They might like me better if I were hungry like them, but I'd rather not starve. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z The girl’s eyes went to him, starving for salvation, but she didn’t speak again. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z He wished his father was alive, even if he was starving. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z How he had come to her cast away, starving, in need of everything, and how she had given herself and her kingdom to him. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z But that was OK, because you didn’t starve in two or three days. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z The captain made him sound like a starving mongrel, tagging at Lucky Girl’s heels, hoping for scraps. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z Then Pa looked at Ma and said, “Nobody’d starve to death when you were around, Caroline.” Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z She said, “I know you must be starving, but if you can hold out for another half hour or so Mr. Jimmy’s going to make everyone’s lunch. Think you can wait?” Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z “Oh my God, you are a child. If we leave you alone here, you’ll freeze to death, you’ll starve to death.” Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z I might be starving, and I might be that nameless boy the others saw staggering through the ranks by midday, but I wasn’t dead yet. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z Sitting like a starved and threadbare buddha, staring into the coals. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z And so if I don’t find Viola and Aaron soon I’ll starve to death if this coughing don’t kill me first. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z Beto, suddenly starving, followed the preacher toward the picnic tables under a stand of oaks, but all along the way they had to stop and meet church ladies. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Yezzan’s slaves ate better than many peasants back in the Seven Kingdoms and were less like to starve to death come winter. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z In a hundred and fifty weeks there are once more only a thousand millions; a thousand thousand thousand men and women have starved to death. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z “No need to write down. When people are starve, they eat anything. Many people eat sawdust to keep stomach from feel hungry. I try myself once, but it hurt my stomach.” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z I looked at all the plump arms and legs, and knew that no one in my class was starving. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z "City's starving, it's a crime to waste food. You have any wine?" A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z My eyes must have been starved for color and I hadn’t known it. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z When Dicey told him this, he said he felt like he was starving, most of the time. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z “People are starving! How could you treat food like this?” Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z From watching Dracula movies, I hated drinking the stuff, fearing that I might turn into a vampire; but there was nothing I could do about it—short of starving to death. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Mother took her ration to a starving boy. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z She almost wished she would run out of the stuff and be forced to either catch a fish and cook it, or simply starve, losing her ugly-fat the hard way. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z “It was rabbit fever,” and the illness lasted many months, during which the family had depended upon church assistance and the charity of neighbors—“otherwise we would’ve starved.” In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z “Don’t be so sure. Most artists are starving. They don’t have all the advantages like you. They take heroin to forget.” Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z We were feeling exhilarated after Harry’s magnificent performance, and we were also starving. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z If the adoption of ploughing increased a village’s population from a hundred to 110, which ten people would have volunteered to starve so that the others could go back to the good old times? Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Mama sighs, and I swallow up the words I was about to say—that I’m starving. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z Mourning the split trees, hens starving on rooftops. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z I’m starving, but Ida is tiny, and she looks like she needs the food more than I do. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z In the reality of the USSR, millions of people were tortured and starved to death in the first years of the Communist Party state. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z “Wish the lunch trolley would hurry up, I’m starving,” said Ron longingly, slumping into the seat beside Harry and rubbing his stomach. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z “I’m starved. Are you ready for dinner, love?” Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z So she had no idea what “starving” truly, truly meant. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z “Dude, I’m exhausted, starving, and sun-sick. But if you wanna haul it right now, we could probably make it there and back before the walls shut.” The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z When his reveries ended, he was still in a filthy, threadbare, lice- infested uniform in a miserable camp crowded with starving and dying prisoners. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z He was growing weaker every day, and it was only a matter of time until Mord's kicks and blows did him serious harm, provided the gaoler did not starve him to death first. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Some of them were desperate, they starved themselves thin or pumped their breasts full of silicone, had their noses cut off. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z You talk about hungry, there’s nothing like knowing your grub is off somewhere digesting in a bear to make you feel starved to death. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Papi would never have threatened to starve a child, no matter how dirty his shirts might be. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z If the crop of minute sea vegetation fails, the young shellfish will starve. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z “Better to starve where we were bred than live here,” Nathan said passionately. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z Slowly but surely, everybody in the house began to starve. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z Either he would actually starve to death or become so weak that he could no longer work, and then he would be shipped to the gas chambers. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z You could get awfully hungry, but you wouldn’t starve. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z Inside the overcrowded barracks, starving prisoners lay crammed together on the platforms, their eyes glazed over, their emaciated bodies barely able to move. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z What agony of starvation this woman had endured, with the starved creature gnawing at her from within, desperate for its own life! The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z “The Government was scared we'd all run out of food if the population kept growing. That's why they made you and me illegal, to keep people from starving.” Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z No matter that at Sunday school I’ve been told such people are either starving or heathens or both. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z “I need money to survive, right? I’m not out here tryin’ to starve to death.” We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z According to Lola, Malaya was a young Filipino girl who once wandered into a starving village. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z And so it came to pass that the normal, happy event of dividing food after a hunt became a war of insults and rage and starving bellies. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z “So do you think it’s your business to beat innocent children and turn them out to starve in the woods, Mr. Zielinski?” The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z Probably starved, he thought, and the hunger pulsed up in him again. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z If Gandhiji was walking with us, could he tell me why we have all been sent into the wild like a bunch of starving goats? The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z It pained me to think that other children were wondering if I were hungry, and whenever they asked me if I wanted food, I would say no, even though I was starving. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z “We will go south! There are everywhere in this great land people who starve. Heaven, however wicked, will not at once wipe out the sons of Han.” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z “Poor thing was near starving and ol’ boy was spending his money on drink. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z They wolfed down their food in the cafeteria at lunch, as if they were starving, and I realized they probably had little food at home. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z If I got myself killed, maybe they would starve. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z Once there, I walked through a grove of eucalyptus trees and alongside a bald pasture of starving cattle, past the guard napping in his gatehouse, and into the waiting arms of my monkey. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z They were zombies, worked and starved into a living death by our captors. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z “Hope they hurry up with the Sorting. I’m starving.” Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z I stole her food and now I’m letting her starve. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The first spoonful was hot and delicious, and I was suddenly starved, couldn’t remember when I’d last eaten. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z It might have starved or died of old age. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Where I couldn’t have eaten a bite before coming in, I was suddenly starving! Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z Seen the people murdered in cold blood, the men and women, and the children, dying, the animals murdered or left to starve. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Then parents will abandon children, elders will be left to starve. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z They were rich in vitamins and minerals and her starving body welcomed them. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “Maybe if that black heart of yours hadn’t been willing to leave them to starve, we could have found them new, loving homes.” The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z I’m starving, even though I scarfed down all of my pad Thai, but there is nothing to eat. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z “Figures, I’m starving and she’s over here having tea parties and pontificating.” Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z The story starts when Jean Valjean is released from prison after serving nineteen years for stealing a loaf of bread to feed his starving family. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z “Maybe! Also, I’m starving, and I really need some chicken and waffles in my stomach soon.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z They were favored animals, not starved, but well furred, the golden hair tempered with black guard hairs. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Port Royal was filled with contrabands, poverty- stricken, sick, homeless, starving. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z My eyes were as starved for words as the rest of me was for dinner. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z I had been a scrawny, starving boy of fifteen who was the size of a ten-year-old. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z We were starving by now and went into a little café perched on the cliff just where one of the footpaths began. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z I could sail a skiff, wrangle a lobster, save a birdman from starving to death. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z Chaim was a shadow of himself, trying to heal starving people in the ghetto’s hospital with no food and no medicine. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z “You guys want to grab some food? I’m starving.” Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z “I’m not going to let the men starve.” Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z Most of the men around him were slowly starving to death. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z People were standing in angry knots talking, gesticulating, swearing that yes, they would starve, they would go down to ruin rather than give in now. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z “Why, he’s starving!’’ she exclaimed in horror, and contributed her own breakfast. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Butler had seen that pose before—on the snouts of starved pit bulls, just before their Russian handlers set them loose on a bear hunt. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z He was dirty and starving and bitten and hurt and lonely and ugly and afraid and so completely miserable that it was like being in a pit, a dark, deep pit with no way out. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z “Grab the newspaper there, Hiram, and let’s get inside and figure out what we can do to keep from starving until we see Ruthanne again.” Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z He was a lean, starved, haggard thing, all bones and tight-drawn sallow skin. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z Only neither the villein nor the farm labourer starved, when the master was a man like Sir Ector. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z She would starve like the baboon on the little island, unless a predator found her first. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Anyway, she was starving, even if it was a dream. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z What she neglected to say—what came flooding back to her now—was also true: every day and every night for seven months she, Alice Manfred, was starving for blood. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z “And bring out the ham and biscuits. These gals have been starving. See how they’ve wasted away.” Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z I don’t know how a man in his right mind can go off and leave a wife and family to starve and shiver in a Limerick winter. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z Imagine how much you’ve got compared to all the kids in the world getting blown up or starved, and the good you could do if you spent half a second thinking about it. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z “Yes, that exactly what I mean. If weed and insect win, would be tragedy. We would starve, so would others. So I must not take break. So deshō.” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z I saw myself sitting in the crotch of this fig tree, starving to death, just because I couldn't make up my mind which of the figs I would choose. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z León and Gene ate everything set before them like starved animals. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z I was tired, and starving, and my arm burned from the tattoo. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z When he was at the railroad plant and yards, he asked the foreman, "How are these poor people keeping alive? They appear to me to be starved." Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z “And what does he want us to do? Live in the woods and starve? We have food here, and shelter, and the ghetto must be nearly empty now. We’d probably have an apartment to ourselves.” The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z “Sorry, I’m starving,” he said, and he spread some boysenberry jam over a warm biscuit. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z Wait until I'm in the arena and sic starving wild animals on me. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z “They look like...starving, shaggy cows with sheepdog hair.” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z He ate only to keep from starving, warmed his body only enough to keep it from freezing to death, ran only because there was no reason to stop. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z I might have been a stranger starving to death, and there wasn't a soul in sight to ask which way to town even. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z For a second she wondered if she’d slipped into the book, if she and Archer were now bound for the edge of the world and the strange starving days ahead. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z Joey blubbered out, “This is just like that horrible story Kenny read me about that guy Nar-sissy who stared at himself so long he forgot to eat and starved to death. Mommy, please save him!” The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z The owlet was starving, for there was only the bunting, when there should have been dozens of lemmings. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Why wouldn’t the English king and church not share all their land with their own starving countrymen? Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z “Minho, I need to tell you and Newt something. And we need to let Teresa out—she’s probably starving and we could use her help.” The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z She asked, “Would you have starved if you didn’t eat onions?” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z During times of famine or drought, he never gave one spoonful of rice to a starving child, even though his jars were overflowing with grains. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z She was small boned to begin with but seemed to be starving herself, and she wanted everybody to know it with her skinny jeans and tight T-shirts. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z If Dicey was hungry, James must be starving. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z Perhaps they would wear out all their last strength only to find more starving people and these strangers to them as well. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z “I figured you were here because someone told you about the others. A starving man showed up a few days ago with two monkeys in a cage on his bike.” Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z “If you want potato chips, you can buy potato chips. With your money. Please don't act like you're starving and homeless.” Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z Another scream came from the house, a sound like a starving animal being tortured. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z The citizens of 13 are truly starved for entertainment. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z This extra rice is our family’s defense weapon against completely starving to death. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “I’m thinking that I’m starving and I have a candy bar in my bag. You want half?” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z Here you know what a seed is for, or you starve. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z ‘If it wasn’t for me, nothing would ever get done. They’d just about starve.’ Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z “Imagine a thousand starving orphans on a sinking ship in the middle of a shark-infested sea, and you’re getting close to how much I don’t want to be there,” Miles said dryly. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z The other said, “Hundreds of children are hidden, mistreated, starved, neglected, abused—even murdered—for no reason. Forcing children into the shadows can be counted as genocide.” Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z I knew when she did finally get here, she would be starving from standing on her feet all day doing security. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z I was starving and Sarah was cooking meat—probably a stew. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z Lola asked, snapping him out of the starving village and back into the Super Saver. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z He also received a monthly cash payment from the government—enough to make sure that they did not starve during the famine. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z They starved a little more slowly than the rest of us, but one day they disappeared, one in the morning, the other that night. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z I was not starving, so I preferred to listen to them. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z My parents and I didn’t leave the hospital until like three in the morning, and we were starving by then. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z “You must be starved. Damon, Alyn, see to them. Wine and ale, and all the food that they can eat. Skinner, show their wounded to our maesters.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Her mother dies and Karen almost starves to death. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z She had starved herself for a day and a night before the ceremony in the hopes that hunger would help her keep down the raw meat. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z People are starving all over the district and we still have more than enough. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z If everyone quit riding, they could starve the City Lines bus company into reason. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z “I’m starved. Wonder what Miss Rachel put in the basket?” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z The last time, torches had burned all along the tunnel, and the eyes of starving men had peered down through the murder holes in the ceiling. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z If Pah didn’t get him first, Virgil figured one of three things would happen: he could suffocate, starve, or die of thirst. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z “Ma, we are starving to death. Many people are dying in the village. Yet the government trades our crops to buy guns to kill more people.” First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Next to them I am a starved, scrawny prison rat. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Why’d he just stay in a cave until he starved to death? We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z I also tell her I feel guilty driving the Cadillac what with all those poor starving babies in Africa and I’ve decided to take the old truck today. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z Paul said he’d rather get shot on the battlefield than starve to death in a British prison. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z “I wouldn’t say starving, but I caught sight of a very beautiful Applebee’s, back near the Port Authority, and I might want to pop in there for a few fajitas, after.” Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z Something inside of you starts to fade and you become like a starving person, crazy-hungry for light. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z But why would an obviously starving baboon troop avoid a hill covered with wild grapes? A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z By hoarding this small stock of food, she could make it last a long time, and with the berries and edible roots she could find in the woods, she wouldn’t starve. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Only after he was starving and sleeping in flophouses did he tell them, “I’ve got no money and noplace to go,” and they were angry with him. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z This is one of the truths of our existence as those who live by the land know: that sometimes we eat and sometimes we starve. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z This has been going on since the late 1860s, when famine struck North Korea and starving farmers fled across the Tumen and the Yalu rivers into northeast China. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z “Heck no. He even call me up at home a few weeks later to make sure I didn’t have no plans to quit. Say he afraid he gone starve if I left.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z Simultaneously, they seek to minimize their risk of starving: moderate but reliable returns are preferable to a fluctuating lifestyle with a high time-averaged rate of return but a substantial likelihood of starving to death. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The man was thin, it is true, but not starved, as he should be. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z This journey had been like a full dinner of many courses, set before a starving man. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Realizing that the soldiers were starving was small consolation when, one morning, I smelled an awful sweet smoke as they burned corpses somewhere. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z We would have food, too, when everyone else was starving, looting. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z One would have thought from his words we had purposely starved him, when in fact of what there was he always got the biggest share after my husband. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z But his attitude toward me and fasting felt like, “I don’t understand why you would choose to starve yourself.” Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z “If you fall and kill yourself, I might starve to death all tied up like this.” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z No one is starving or denied medical care, no one sleeps in the streets, everyone works who wants to work. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z And I heard my father's voice joking, "As long as you can find yourself, you'll never starve." The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z Either way, her mother would have remembered to pack Aimee a snack before sending her off to school, as she was now most likely going to starve to death. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z I was starved for sleep by the time my first roommate arrived. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Then I hoped the kata-kata starved until there was nothing left. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z “It’s about time you showed up! Those starving old people kept calling every two minutes and ruined our meeting.” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z I wonder how soon it will be before they actually start starving. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z He sets them to work, he gives back to them the bare minimum that will prevent them from starving, and the rest he keeps for himself. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z But the food wasn’t there—wherever the starving people were—it was here, on his plate. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z “Before they were born, before they came into this world, the chimookoman must have starved as ghosts. They are infinitely hungry.” The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z Yes, he could take the job at Dalton’s and be miserable, or he could refuse it and starve. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z I’ll tell her my mother is sick above in the bed, my brothers are starving and we’ll all be dead for the want of bread. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z Now, when the only alternative is to starve, I fight others for a dead animal lying in the road. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Trotter could be in a room full of starving children and he wouldn’t offer one. Doing Time Online 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z You have never been starving, he had been told. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z Otherwise, prisoners will simply starve themselves to death and no one will know. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z They were afraid to tell anyone that she vanished for fear they would be arrested and sent back to Slovenia to starve. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Aside from the usual insects and the well-publicized starving people in India, we failed to see any potential takers. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z Soon, unless things change, the people will starve. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z If you would not freeze or starve, submit. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z There are ten or twelve gentlemen on board and they are leaving the twenty-five of us commoners behind to starve. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z “We will never starve, because the Collective has eliminated diversity and demand for more choices.” The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z I was suddenly starving, and wished I had saved my candy bar instead of offering it to my brother. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z The poor bird had been picturing all the fights —almost certainly picturing them quite wrong: nourishing a starved heart on secondhand accounts in secret: wondering whose token was in the place of honour today. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z "Once he runs out of food, how long until he starves to death? " The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z I was faced with two choices: starve or beg. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z No one in the community was starving, had ever been starving, would ever be starving. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z I couldn’t see the shark with daylight still a few hours away, but I felt it there, gliding along just on the other side of the fiberglass, this starving presence. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z They’ll feel how I do when I think about how the oceans are changing in all the worst ways, and how jellyfish will starve even whales. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z I was still ragged and frequently hungry, but I was in no real danger of starving. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z If it weren't for the Bog your parents would have no work at all, and you would starve. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z Mary could almost feel them welcoming it in their poor parched throats, which were so perfectly shaped for it, and which had been starved for so long. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z My father and mother were starving poor, and dreaded another mouth to feed. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z “I’m starving,” Jake grumbled, twisting the volume knob next to the video monitor to mute the sound. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z Her tummy’s got a little fat on it, her cheeks aren’t so hollow as they were, out here starving her and Mister Johnny to death. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z That I was angry about my childhood left to wither and starve in the woods. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z By Tuesday I was so starved I knew I had to go back to my mistress. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z ‘Just about perfect. Only some of it you put in the first person, so it wasn’t quite the truth, but... you’ll never starve.’ Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z “Does Eugene think we are starving? Even a bag of rice?” Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z When you’re really starving, your stomach hurts until you don’t want to do anything. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z There are still children starving in Africa, right? Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z So he slowly pulled away from anyone who ever tried to befriend him, like a starving man hoarding his last scraps of bread. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z “After all, there’s a war on. It’s not much of a sacrifice, when you think of people starving and being bombed and all the other things.” A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z This time Esteban Trueba did not attempt to hold him back, because he thought a trip through that distant nation of starving people and nomadic cows would do his son a lot of good. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Think of those Belgian babies and starving Frenchmen. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z I grin at him and realize that I'm starving. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z A few hours later we woke up sweaty and anxious and once more walked as fast as we could, given how exhausted and starving we were, in a kind of hollow desperate silence. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Despite their big advantage over the Aborigines in possessing guns with which to hunt, Burke and Wills starved, collapsed, and died within a month after the Aborigines’ departure. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Maybe if she returned to the city in a month, starving and empty-handed, Dr. Cable would take mercy on her. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z What will not a man give for his starving children and his old father! The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z They called him Cinderella Man, because he starved through the Depression, like the rest of us, but somehow fought out of the darkness to become the champion. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z He would freeze, starve, or be blown away. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z Both Dad and I were starved for lunch. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z To starve in order to learn about my environment was irrational, but so were my hungers. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z They emerged selfish and starving, gasping for air. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z A starving Greek community defies Nazi soldiers by hanging out thousands of forbidden national flags. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z Actually, it wasn’t that far, it just seemed that way because as I went looking and finding nothing, I was sure I was going to starve to death. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z I was starving, so I lifted the lid off the first bowl. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z Derek would lose some weight, but he wouldn’t starve to death in that time. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z If they have the misfortune to run out of those provisions, even they starve to death despite their detailed knowledge of locally available wild foods. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Captured American and British and Australian soldiers were forced into slave labor, starved, and beaten. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z But why did he then stay at the bus and starve? Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z I was starved beyond recognition when the first British soldier walked through the barracks door, only thirty kilos. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z I’ve slept right through the late afternoon and night, and I’m starving. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z “Are you trying to starve me? Are you in cahoots with them? What torture. Crying day and night. I’d trade the rotting baby for this rubbish.” Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z She must somehow tell him that she was starving and ask him for food. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “Either you press that scorpion and we escape together, or we stay here and starve together. I’m not leaving you! Not now or ever!” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z I know now that Mama was starving and gave me her rice so that I would not starve with her. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z If these Sleets had to live under those rules they’d all starve to death. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z Married women were not allowed to teach in those days, hence most of the teachers were women made neurotic by starved love instincts. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z She was determined to keep her family from starving. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z “I’m starving. My sister is hardly home to cook, so I’ve been living on delivery pizza and microwave popcorn.” We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z “We all have them. I suppose the crops failed and you starved.” Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z |
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