Sentence examples similar to half famished from inspiring English sources
The reason for the mass deaths was described by the Fuehrer's adjutants as follows: The half-famished encircled Russian armies had put up fanatical resistance during the last 8 or 10 days.
O how you'll for the'Aegyptian Flesh-pots wish, When you'r half-famished with your Lenten dish, Your almonds, currans, biskits hard and dry, Food that will Soul and Body mortifie: Damn'd Penetential Drink, that will infuse Dull Principles into thy Grateful Muse.
When moment and maternal epidermis are ripe, a half-dozen famished young caecilians surround her, and using rows of temporary, specialized teeth that look like slotted spoons or grappling hooks, they peel her, potato-style, from top to tail.
I realise suddenly that I'm famished, I've eaten half a banana, three cherry tomatoes, at least 24 Haribo and half a sausage all day, and even then I feel guilty for the sausage as it means the kids have less between them.
That's half a million children whose mothers ⎯ famished themselves ⎯ are now watching their children suffer, wither, and beg for food that is not there.
Famished, exhausted and with their heads half-shaved, the slaves were herded off ships, groomed in "fattening houses" and dispatched to sugar and coffee plantations across Brazil.
The diners are "famished".
Shaquille O'Neal is famished.
