6 sentences with 'starved'
Example sentences and phrases with the word starved and other words derived from it.
• « Mark Antony and Cleopatra's soldiers starved to death due to a successful blockade engineered by Octavian and his friend and commander-in-chief Agrippa, and the unhappy couple committed suicide the following year in exile. »
• « When harvests failed, Europeans not only starved to death, but those who survived were left even more vulnerable to epidemics due to weakened immune systems. »
• « Tens of thousands starved to death, desertion was ubiquitous, and of the 600,000 who had left for Russia, only 40,000 returned to France. »
• « Whenever there was a market slump, which sometimes lasted for years (e.g. from 1839 to 1842), workers were summarily dismissed to reduce costs, and some starved to death as a result. »
• « The ensuing Russian civil war was brutal, eventually killing around ten million people (mostly civilians who were massacred or starved to death), and lasted four years. In the end, however, the Bolsheviks prevailed in Russia itself, Ukraine and Central Asia. »
• « In the winter of 1932 - 1933 in particular, peasants throughout the USSR (and especially in the Ukraine) starved to death - probably around 3 million people died of starvation, and the process of collectivisation resulted in another 6 - 10 million deaths, including those who were executed for resisting. Thus, the total death toll was probably more than 10 million. »