Lack sustenance

Usage examples of starve.

Most of the immense, ugly structure, which had always looked like the box some other building had been shipped in, was now occupied only by tax accountants, 3V producers, whores, mosquitoes, anthologists, brokers, blimp-race betting agencies, public-relations firms, travel agents, and other telephone-booth Indians, plus hordes and torrents of plague-bearing brown rats and their starving fleas.

Taken in substance it would have starved our species out of existence as soon as it had conceived the theory: our intelligence, whether anthropocentric or otherwise, advises us that we have ensured the survival of terrene species by our actions.

A solo mole person, however, burrowing away at random, was likely to starve long before stumbling across the scattered bounty.

I should have kissed you for that, and wrung the breath out of you afterwards for a starved, misbegotten spawn of an English apothecary--as you are, my son.

Sparks needed her: She imagined him sick or hungry, moneyless, friendless, starving.

The carbon monoxide replaces the oxygen in the bloodstream and starves the brain of the oxygen it needs.

They keep Narwe for slaves, and sometimes us, but without Erani, Narwe would probably starve.

Habana with a famous patronymic, a decent sword, personal honor, ambition, and damned little else save, perhaps, a letter of introduction to some midlevel official, for he and I both came west across the Ocean Sea in just such fashion, knowing that we would sink or swim, live or die, prosper or starve by dint of only our wits, our strong swordarms, and the Will of God.

De government petter leave dem to tie on de pattle field, nur do pring tem here to starve.

Sagebrush and prickly pears furnished the only vegetation, and the rough, broken surface of the country took on a starved, gaunt appearance.

A promoter minus a personalty or a gimmick starved to death, and he was a long way from starving.

I knew the penguins were starving when I went to Antarctica: the phytoplankton extinctions led to the extinction of krill the penguins fed on and there was nothing left for them to eat.

High reared the ploughshare, broken lay the wain, Idly the flax-wheel spun Unridered: starving lords were wasp and moth.

Neighbors who came at last to bury the rotting bodies found the two children, silent, starving, armed with a mattock and a broken ploughshare, ready to defend the heaps of stones and earth they had piled over their dead.

Not until the Plutonic power is so strongly set up that the higher human impulses are suppressed as rebellious, and even the mere appetites are denied, starved, and insulted when they cannot purchase their satisfaction with gold, are the energetic spirits driven to build their lives upon riches.