Sentence examples similar to peckish starving from inspiring English sources

I would throw out a topic like "hunger" and we would list words that described hunger by degrees... peckish, hungry, famished, starving... like that.

In one television commercial, Scott tells a neighbor about the "tiny voices crying out, 'Feed us,' " on his lawn and how "they're peckish to the point of starving".

But I like the more day-to-day overstatement – like saying you're starving when really you're just peckish.

Also starving.

You are starving.

I was starving.

Everyone was starving.

Starving she is not.

Clearly, nobody is starving.

Starving dogs wandered freely.

Suddenly you're starving.