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Starvation
"Starvation" in a Sentence (15 examples)
When we were on the brink of starvation, they saved our lives.
The poor cat was on the verge of starvation.
The poor child was on the verge of starvation.
Many children die of starvation in Africa.
They are on the border of starvation.
With his crew stranded at sea, Christopher Columbus was able to save them from starvation by pulling 100 rabbits out of his hat.
Germany faced possible starvation.
Tom was on the verge of starvation.
Every two seconds somewhere on Earth a child dies of starvation, while elsewhere there are abundant food resources going to waste.
The failure of the crops was the major cause of starvation in that region.
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"We haven't one chance for life in a hundred thousand if we don't find food and water upon Caprona. This water coming out of the cliff is not salt; but neither is it fit to drink, though each of us has drunk. It is fair to assume that inland the river is fed by pure streams, that there are fruits and herbs and game. Shall we lie out here and die of thirst and starvation with a land of plenty possibly only a few hundred yards away? We have the means for navigating a subterranean river. Are we too cowardly to utilize this means?"
Meanwhile, Mr. Netanyahu’s orders to resume delivery of food aid, an abrupt about-face under intense U.S. and international pressure, came as warnings of mass starvation intensify, including from within Israel’s own security establishment.
Fuel starvation has several causes.
However, if the ASE application is paged out because of memory starvation, the entire process is blocked and no useful work can be done until the required pages are brought into memory.
Whenever multiple threads compete for a scarce resource, there is the danger of starvation, a situation in which the thread never gets the resource.
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