How to use "starve" in sentences with meaning in English and Hindi

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Example sentences for "starve" in popular movie and book plots

  • He traps her in an oubliette and begins to starve her.  - The Silence of the Lambs (novel)
  • As he journeys home, Tien Pao begins to starve and suffer from exhaustion.  - The House of Sixty Fathers
  • People will starve to death by the millions waiting to be rescued.  - Supervolcano (film)
  • Diamonds and riches get pent up in his treasuries, while his subjects starve and suffer.  - Hirak Rajar Deshe
  • They are left facing a horrifying choice — starve to death or freeze to death — when Quark has an idea.  - The Ascent (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine)
  • He imprisons Norman, which prompts Barbara's epiphany: "The poor deluded people will starve and die as they are in Russia".  - Bolshevism on Trial
  • Tom and Mary are forgotten and starve to death in prison.  - Cow Days
  • Cartman soon begins to starve because Butters believes that, since he is a robot, he does not need to eat.  - Awesom-O
  • The player is also responsible for making Pockle eat, as he will otherwise starve to death.  - Giftpia
  • They starve the Major's dog, then place the Major in the maze's centre and turn off the lights.  - Tales from the Crypt (film)
  • The children will starve within six months.  - Miri (Star Trek: The Original Series)
  • The only solution is to starve the tapeworm, but to do so invites painful withdrawal.  - The Hellgramite Method
  • The crew of the Space Beagle lures the intelligence to chase the ship into deep space, causing it to starve to death.  - The Voyage of the Space Beagle
  • Uncas is taken prisoner by the Hurons, and left to starve when he withstands torture, and Heyward fails to find Alice.  - The Last of the Mohicans
  • They overfeed the dogs and then starve them when the food runs out.  - The Call of the Wild
  • The man, a lowly servant recently fired, is contemplating whether to starve to death or to become a thief to survive in the barren times.  - Rashōmon (short story)

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