Sentence examples for starving down from inspiring English sources
Back once more in Virginia, ragged and starving, down to the last bullet and amid the burning bridges of Appomattox, just 600 of the 3,500 men who left Texas were still standing in uniform when Lee surrendered.
"In the old days," the novelist Henry Bech, John Updike's fictional alter ego, once said, "a respectable author never asked for an advance; that was strictly for the no-talents starving down in the Village".
Researchers are discovering that the pancreas helps mediate much of the appetite-related cross talk between the brain and the gastrointestinal tract, the streams of chemical signals that say, I'm starving down here, how about some dinner, or, enough already, step away from that dessert cart and no one will be hurt.
She likened her journey to that of Buck in "The Call of the Wild," the dog who, she said, "was starved, down in the snow and ready to die, when he adapted and became a wolf".
In reality, in places long besieged by government forces, they, and their families, are starving, worn down by a war no-one expected would last this long or be so punishing.
If actual games are the fans' sustenance, they could have starved counting down the four days plus to Game 2 of this first-round playoff series, and then watching the Knicks shoot 39percentt and be outrebounded by 48-36.
They'd gone through a year during which I starved myself down to 68 pounds and required feeding by IV.
Back in 2004, Christian Bale starved himself down to a terrifyingly skeletal frame for his role in The Machinist.
But the false idea of a celebrity's "before" picture (before the inevitable trim "after") is what's sinister: as soon as they land back in the UK, they hit the gym twice a day and basically starve themselves down for the DVD cover shoot over the course of a deeply unhealthy boom-and-bust three months.
We proved a pattern of abuse of this girl — beating, tying her down, starving her".
An old Eskimo woman told McClintock of how the starving men fell down and died as they walked.
