What is "starving"

Usage examples of "starving".

But when a spell of four successive days passed with no gleanings to be found and when no birds died, at least not within reach of the starving family, the servant of a rich man came to the tree where the Chars were sleeping, and he carried in a bag a bundle of freshly baked cakes, whose aroma drove the smaller Char children mad with hunger, for they were the kind of cakes Nyuk Moi had often baked, and the servant said bluntly, "My master would consider buying your oldest daughter.

She’d found the baby, aban­doned and starving to death, in Croatia, just after Croatia had declared its independence from Yugoslavia, when the Serb army was already decimating pockets of the new country in the beginning of the bitter war.

Schilling suspected, that they had been standing in iron yet starving for iron, Wild Whip joyously gathered up an armful' of ripe fruit and tossed it onto the mansion floor.

Didn't seem to be starving them, though he wondered if that slab of elementary sulfur was really enough for the Lethi clinging to it.

The—er—Loosies were starving when I came here, kept alive only by PTA ration bricks.

They were starving and even their Catteni-issue clothing was torn and incredibly filthy.

You're alive, you're sure kicking, you're even flying, and if that isn't better than starving in a Catteni prison for blowing up their freighter, you're gone in the head.

Tisha, he's half frozen and starving of the hunger," the young green rider added, hauling the tall fur wrapped figure towards the nearest hearth and pushing him into a chair.

It had begun like other mornings, with Dorse's trite comments about oversized fire-lizards, with Lytol's habitual query about Ruth's health-as if the dragon were likely to deteriorate overnight-and with Deelan snidely repeating that sickeningly old hoot about visitors starving at the Smithcrafthall.

She thought dimly that she'd pull his head away, but instead her palms pressed against his warm skull and held him to her, held his mouth to the tender flesh he was suckling as fiercely as any starving infant.

She married him only because we were all starving and he said he'd give money to her parents if she'd marry him.

They were all starving, so they decided on sandwiches, which were quick, and had just finished when another car drove up.

Chance took to the books like a starving pup to its mother's teat, but in every other way he determinedly remained at arm's length.

By then she had recovered enough to be starving, and she chowed down on her second hamburger of the day.

But she’d had to see him, had to watch him just a little longer to feed these memories into her starving heart.