Sentence examples for becomes starved from inspiring English sources

What people experience as death creeps in after the heart stops and the brain becomes starved of oxygen seems to lie beyond the reach of science.

As a tumour grows in size, its centre gradually becomes starved of oxygen, and high expression of CA9 might therefore indicate that a tumour has a greater propensity for enlargement.

His imagination became starved.

The desert blossomed -- and the Aral Sea became starved for water.

Starved before, the writer chose to become starved again — that is, blocked.

Much of the sea became starved of oxygen, possibly due to asteroid impacts.

"We became starved skeletons, naked and ragged rebels," said a Tennessean.

When out of the breeding grounds of their usual prey, such as squid, they can quickly become starved and dehydrated, because they obtain their water from their food.

Tissues that might become starved of oxygen due to blood loss or cardiac arrest are thus protected.

There are two problems with this approach: firstly, if the amount of users grows beyond the predetermined limit, the application will become starved for resources.

Aidan Hampson, working jointly with colleagues at the National Institute of Mental Health and elsewhere, set out to test whether THC's inhibitory effects might also prevent the toxic overstimulation of brain cells that results when the brain cells become starved for oxygen and sugar, and are then unable to pump out the neurotransmitter glutamate.