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Famine
"Famine" in a Sentence (15 examples)
The prospect of famine hangs over many areas of the world.
Because of the famine, the cattle starved to death.
Disease and famine go together.
Can you share food with others in the face of famine?
Famine caused great distress among the people.
Famine stared us in the face.
Famine followed upon the eruption of the volcano.
More often than not, famine is accompanied by plague.
That is why so many people are suffering from famine.
The long drought was followed by famine.
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It was reserved for Christians to torture bread, the staff of life, bread for which children in whole districts wail, bread, the gift of pasture to the poor, bread, for want of which thousands of our fellow beings annually perish by famine; it was reserved for Christians to torture the material of bread by fire, to create a chemical and maddening poison, burning up the brain and brutalizing the soul, and producing evils to humanity, in comparison of which, war, pestilence, and famine, cease to be evils.
Dr. Bhatia pointed out that famine had occurred in all ages and in all societies where means of communication and transport were not developed.
1986, United States Congress, House Select Committee on Hunger, Committee on Foreign Affairs, Subcommittee on Africa, Famine and Recovery in Africa The root causes of the current famine are known: poverty, low health standards....
His own flesh, however, which he lost by famine, shall be restored to him by Him who can recover even what has evaporated.
the Lancashire Cotton Famine
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