half-famished
- a word derived from famished.
Example Sentences
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Soon the boiling-pot began to send forth a most savoury and appetising smell, to these half-famished men.
From The Last of the Vikings by Bowling, John
In the second storey lives a serpent half-famished with hunger.
From Tales of the Sun or Folklore of Southern India by Kingscote, Mrs. Howard
They were not half-famished when captured, like the garrison of Kut.
From A Prisoner in Turkey by Still, John
The mosquitoes seemed as thick as the blades of grass on the prairie, and swarmed and buzzed in clouds, and packs of half-famished wolves prowled and howled about us.
From From Manassas to Appomattox Memoirs of The Civil War in America by Longstreet, James
I accompanied this detachment, and on the third day out we found the half-famished soldiers camped on the Palladora.
From The Aventures of Buffalo Bill by Cody, Col. William F.
