Sentence examples for famish from inspiring English sources

Patricians like Coriolanus, they claim, "suffer (the public) to famish" while cramming their own storehouses with grain.

Suffer us to famish, and their storehouses crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act established against the rich, and provide more statues daily, to chain up and restrain the poor.

Sometimes he's like my father and drinks the dole itself and that's why Nora Molloy is often carted off to the lunatic asylum demented with worry over her hungry famishing family.