Sentence examples for starved from inspiring English sources

"You simply can't recruit great teachers, raise standards and give every child a fair start in life if the education system is starved of cash.

It is yet another resonant gesture, as one of O'Connell's predecessors, Terence MacSwiney, famously starved himself to death in Brixton prison in 1920 after being jailed by the British for sedition.

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With the country bereft of heavy industry – and scrambling to find work for a youth population starved of jobs – the sector is widely seen as the fuel that can keep the Greek economy's engine going.

On film he's been beaten up (Eastern Promises), starved (The Road) and kicked in the balls (A History of Violence), but he can't imagine work being any other way.

At gunpoint, blank-faced SS officers manhandle the twisted bodies of the prisoners they starved to death, slinging them into gigantic burial pits that will eventually be filled with thousands of corpses.

But my sugar-starved brain couldn't muster such a cohesive answer.

See how skinny she is – half-starved, poor thing.

On Monday, the Financial Times reported that Greece was poised to take the dramatic step of declaring a debt default – a move that would almost certainly lead to the closure of Greek banks and imposition of capital controls – citing an unnamed official as saying the cash-starved country had "reached the end of the road".

BS: "I've heard that you are the most sought-after writer in Bollywood…" HZ: "Bollywood is a content-starved industry, they don't have original content.

While all this is going on, the new Syriza-led government of cash-starved Greece will be scrabbling for every last cent to repay the next €450m (£330m) instalment of the country's loan from the IMF.