Sentence examples for famine came from inspiring English sources

When the famine came, the pharaoh had stored food away.

(Affection for Mao among the rural population was one reason for the strange lack of public disaffection when the famine came).

In Ukraine this famine came to be known as the Holodomor, from the Ukrainian words for hunger (holod) and extermination (mor).

Joseph was put in charge of storing the grain during the years of plenty and of distributing it when the famine came.

My true flashpoint of inspiration to write a novel about the 1942 famine came when I heard survivors describe the state of mind of my three million fellow citizens as they faced starvation.

She said the 1992 trip, which was the first by a head of state and was followed by a visit to the United Nations in New York to alert the world to the Somali famine, came about after she received a request from humanitarian organisations Trocaire, Concern and Goal.

"If famine comes to South Sudan, it will come through the barrel of a gun.

It is a familiar paradox: the world sees famine coming, yet acts only after the event.

Witnessing famine comes as a visceral shock – the slow and silent evisceration of society, family and the human body itself.

Follow that Star: Yuletide feast in prospect There may now be no racing for three days but after the famine, comes the feast.

Tariq Reibl, head of Oxfam's programme in South Sudan, said: "If famine comes to South Sudan it will come through the barrel of a gun.