Sentence examples for hardly fed from inspiring English sources

They were sent to an aunt, who hardly fed them, and then took their skinniness as proof that they were witches.Belief in witchcraft is widespread in Africa.

Tanya Lyashenko, 16, who fled to the streets because her parents hardly fed her, now enjoys English literature and dreams of being a pharmacist.

They hardly fed us and we were very hungry.

The Irish poor could hardly feed themselves, let alone bring a lawsuit.

If you don't grow the stuff in the first place you can hardly feed it to your children".

To her, auditioning for the movie was hardly feeding into men's fantasies of the ultimate servile wife.

She was forced into a communist block, could hardly feed her boys and spent years sitting in the cold and dark.

After being at sea for several years, salmon return in summer to the sites of their birth to spawn and die, and hardly feed along their final journey.

"In my 20s Mosuo people could hardly feed their families and children had no clothes, not to mention schooling," he said.

By American standards, Mr Premji hardly feeds at the trough: he paid himself a wage of $48,000 last year, along with a commission (based on 0.1% of net profits) of $258,000 and perks worth $65,000.

In a year of famine people can hardly feed their own kin, while in a year of plenty they feast casual visitors not because they are alternately heartless and generous but "because of the difference in the amount of food to be had".