Example Sentences

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“Being broke and homeless and friendless and jobless and foodless and anorexic — it was not a vibe.”

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 5, 2024

“I lay in a backyard in Bow, foodless and drinkless, urinating and defecating where I was,” he writes, “treating as hostile the humans in the row houses all around—which wasn’t hard.”

From The New Yorker • May 23, 2016

Empty, savage, and foodless: This was Detroit’s reputation when Robb first went there.

From Slate • Nov. 19, 2014

Of course, in the long term, a world where an increasing number of people are facing foodless days and an increasing number of countries are facing food-driven instability could be dangerous for everyone.

From Slate • Apr. 8, 2014

Note the beauty of the epithet "brown," where all that is motionless is white— "The foodless wilds Pour forth their brown inhabitants."

From Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2 by Wilson, John