The phrase "avoid starvation" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts discussing food security, nutrition, or survival strategies.
Example: "In times of crisis, it is essential to implement measures to avoid starvation among vulnerable populations."
Alternatives: "prevent hunger" or "stop starvation".
So he leaped into the fire, hoping the hermit would cook him and avoid starvation.
"But in order to avoid starvation, I took on the phone calls and tried to make stuff happen".
Tuning out is adaptive, he says — it helped our hunter ancestors to focus on their prey and avoid starvation.
This month the World Food Program announced that 5.5 million people in Zimbabwe will need extra food in order to avoid starvation.
"Any contribution of calories to Afghanistan will help avoid starvation," said Ramin Rafirasme, a spokesman for the United Nations World Food Program in Quetta.
According to Samoan legend, during a famine a grandmother and her granddaughter leaped into the sea to avoid starvation and turned into a turtle and shark.
But his patron departed without paying him and, to avoid starvation, he sold some signed Whistlers (stolen from the Metropolitan) to an art firm.
These folks, like my parents, were forced to move here to avoid starvation and disease, always with the hope of returning.
That returns a once-ambitious family directly into the hopeless cycle of poverty at its nadir -- illiterate, ill-nourished children hoeing small plots of corn to avoid starvation.
Drawing on expertise from a range of fields, the book offers a comprehensive review of current knowledge on vertebrate metal-withholding mechanisms and the strategies employed by different microbes to avoid starvation (or poisoning).
The New Yorker, March 16 , 1946 P. 21tPresident Truman's Emergency Economic Committee was invoked to persuade Americans to eat less that other citizens of the world may avoid starvation.
