How to Use famine in a Sentence

famine

noun
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  • The famine affected half the continent.
  • Teach them to hunt, fish, gather and process food, then to prepare for times of famine and war.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 17 Mar. 2022
  • For other African countries on the edge of famine, any increase in wheat prices will put bigger populations at risk.
    — Laurent Belsie, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 Mar. 2022
  • North Korea was emerging from a historic four-year famine that reportedly killed millions, but the talks failed.
    — Robin Wright, The New Yorker, 7 Mar. 2022
  • Meanwhile, famine has swept Gaza, with around half a million people facing starvation, the U.N. says.
    — Alexander Smith, NBC News, 6 Oct. 2024
  • Among the most famous were secret airlifts in the ‘80s and ‘90s of Ethiopian Jews facing famine and civil war.
    — Los Angeles Times, 15 Mar. 2022
  • These are often short- or long-term catastrophes that have major effects on human lives: famines, migration, and stability of governments.
    — Ian Dexter Palmer, Forbes, 15 Oct. 2024
  • The result was a catastrophic famine, the most lethal in European history, in which 3 million Ukrainians died.
    — Mary Ann Gwinn, Los Angeles Times, 10 Mar. 2022
  • The World Food Program warned on Monday that without substantial new funding, mass starvation and famine would follow.
    — NBC News, 16 Mar. 2022
  • There were mass protests in England, famine in Ireland, and revolutionary uprisings on the Continent.
    — The New Yorker, 28 Feb. 2022
  • The vast majority of those who survived the initial attack would also die over the coming months from radiation sickness, infectious diseases, famine and exposure.
    — Ira Helfand, CNN, 17 Mar. 2022
  • In the decades following the famine, the Irish spread to every corner of the globe.
    — Diego Lasarte, Quartz, 16 Mar. 2023
  • Much of Gaza is at risk of famine in the next several months.
    — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 3 Jan. 2024
  • It’s been feast or famine for the Lions defense of late.
    — Eddie Brown, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Nov. 2023
  • Needless to say, there is no famine of glamour to speak of.
    — Roxanne Adamiyatt, Town & Country, 9 Sep. 2022
  • There was a famine that prompted the Lakota chief to send scouts to hunt for food.
    — Saleen Martin, USA TODAY, 1 July 2024
  • The amount that is raised can determine feast or famine.
    — Mike Desimone and Jeff Jenssen, Forbes, 10 Feb. 2023
  • The goal was to raise money for the famine that was unfolding at that time in Ethiopia.
    — Michela Moscufo, ABC News, 4 Aug. 2022
  • Since the pandemic, it’s been feast or famine at the box office.
    — Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 22 Aug. 2022
  • Speaking of which, there is a literal famine in Gaza caused by the war.
    — Abid Rahman, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Apr. 2024
  • The first, of course, was the song’s reason for being: to save the lives of Ethiopians victimized by famine.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 29 Jan. 2024
  • Is the threat of famine, protests and distress from higher food prices behind us?
    — Julia Horowitz, CNN, 26 July 2022
  • But climate change is another key factor that has the Horn of Africa on the verge of famine.
    — Ryan Bergeron, CNN, 3 Aug. 2022
  • The forced implementation of this idea led to years of famine.
    — Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 7 June 2022
  • The resulting shortages and price increases raised the threat of famine in parts of the Middle East and Africa.
    — Matthew Mpoke Bigg, BostonGlobe.com, 17 May 2023
  • Years of fighting have ground into a bloody stalemate and pushed the Arab world's poorest nation to the brink of famine.
    — Isabel Debre, ajc, 7 July 2022
  • The media tends to transmit clichéd images of the African continent, such as famine and war.
    — Martin Dale, Variety, 12 June 2022
  • Our great-great-grandparents may have come to the New World to escape famines in Europe.
    — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 24 July 2023
  • Black 47 is an Irish-American rock band, its name being a reference to the year of the Irish famine.
    — Selena Barrientos, Good Housekeeping, 22 Jan. 2023
  • Tens of millions of Chinese died in the resulting famine.
    — Eyck Freymann, WSJ, 28 Apr. 2022

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