Downy thought, if she should ever be deprived of her, it would break her heart, and she must soon be starved to death, as she could not work now, as she had done formerly.
My wife and children were half-naked and half-starved only this time last year.
Ah, Assyrian, there is more in starved Jerusalem than thou canst put in thy speeches!
At any rate, I am not likely to bestarved to death amongst you all!
A supply of the best wine has been sent off, and extra stores of all sorts, so you need not be afraid of being starved on the voyage.
At the end of that time he destroyed all his works and fell back upon Chioggia, and determined to wait there until Venice was starvedinto surrender.
The contest will not be even, for they start on it full men and strong, while our people are half starved already.
I told Curl we must find some way to stop them if possible, as so many beans in their starved stomachs might make them sick and the tribe would think we had poisoned them.
Their horses were thin and poor, starved out on the short grass, and famished for water.
He was a great favourite of mine was Tom, and had been ever since I found him, a half-starved kitten in the area, and took him in and fed him till he grew up the fine cat he was.
No complaint was made, but merely a statement of facts; for Putnam must have known that many of the soldiers under his commander were at that very time half starved and half naked at Valley Forge.
Not until they crossed the railroad did he lift his head and then he drew a deep breath as if starved for pure air and spoke.
She never before had known a man; her heart was as undeveloped and starved as her body.
Have I been overworked and starved so long there is no feeling in me?
If she hadn't been starved for flowers she never would have stopped for them on the street.
But whether the tears that stained those sheets had fallen from the eyes of the suffering mother or the starved and deserted daughter, there was no way for the Harvester to know.
Douglas and Mary came over, and the poor beauty-starved populace forgot for the moment its poverty, and showered all its pent-up emotion on the people from picture-book land.
Perhaps on the other hand, a man of forty's paternal instinct has been starved so long that he wants to find at once a wife and a child.
The exception was Geordie Wylie, a small lad of thirteen with a white face and a starved appearance.
A majority of the man who fought for the integrity of this Union--a majority who were starved at Libby and Andersonville are now in hell.
The child she longed for would never by the touch baby hands bring consolation to her starved and lonely heart.
It was not a frequent event, but there were times when her starved affections, craving outlet, were expended in default of other medium upon the poodle who gave in return a devotion that was entirely single-minded.
The dark draperies of the convent had palled, she had craved colour with an almost starved longing.
All I could see there, however, was desert sand, a half-starved dog prowling about in the foreground in search of something to eat, and a group of palm trees upon the far horizon.
He married a girl as good as he was bad, and as a result starved not only himself but his wife and children.
There were trout in the pond, but these were not caught; nor were the bodies of the starved ones eaten, as sometimes occurs among other animals.
What makes you sigh like a half-starved old beggar in a famine, with your "shesheshe"?
There surely isn't any breakfast in our house, and I'm starved to death.
Randy had not yet starved for love of a rhythm, but he had lost sleep during those nights in France, trying to put into words the things that gripped his soul.
We are like the shipwrecked seamen in the old books, who, having once nearly starved to death, ever afterwards hide away bits of food and biscuit.
They starved together heroically, and Nurse Blaber was good enough to signify approval when she came to clear away.
They are in need of proper food, but they pay no attention to this, for they are even more starved for the company of women.
But the sensation of her touch, and the knowledge it was the breast he wanted exquisitely to hold, attuned his starved senses to everything around him, even the quiet rhythm of her breath.
They wouldn't have starved us, at any rate, and perhaps the prison isn't so very bad, after all.
I didn't know that I was shipping to become a pirate, or you may be very certain I'd have sat on that log till I starved before going one step with you.
He found Bonny impatiently awaiting him, and in such cheerful spirits as to be hardly recognizable for the despondent, half-starved lad of two hours before.
But he saved our lives; for if we hadn't found his camp we should certainly have starved to death.
Couldn't eat ship's victuals till I starved him to it, and finally got me into the wust scrape of my life.
Starved for a couple of days, and then did odd jobs about the river for my grub, until I got a chance to ship as one of the crew of the sloop Fancy, that runs freight and passengers between here and the Sound.
We were almost perishing and starved from the fatigue and sufferings of the night, the few provisions we had being totally destroyed by the salt water.
With starved stomachs and broken spirits, they were forced upon this long march to the cheerless bourn of a gaol.
Doubtless that sweet mother of mine had starved through giving all she had to her child.
She could have starved in a garret had she been alone; but she could not see them wanting a comfort while she possessed a guinea.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "starved" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
