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

No more through air the gay birds flit, But, foodless, melancholy sit Together on the branch and call To thee whose kind heart feels for all.”

From The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Griffith, Ralph T. H. (Ralph Thomas Hotchkin)