half-starved
Britishadjective
Example Sentences
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Six hundred years ago, on a muddy field near Agincourt in northern France, King Henry V’s outnumbered, half-starved English army faced the flower of French chivalry.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 19, 2026
"Would you want to live from the age of 40, half-starved, have a completely unpleasant life, if you're going to live another five years at the end? I wouldn't," he said.
From BBC • Jul. 17, 2024
But by age 12, she found herself worrying that she wasn’t quite the physical ideal espoused by the school’s late founder, George Balanchine: a half-starved waif.
From Washington Post • Mar. 14, 2023
"It was like being thrown into the past by a time machine. … I ended up in a half-starved Moscow with dirty, broken streets, empty counters, shops without shop windows. People were driving old cars."
From Salon • Dec. 5, 2022
With only one half-starved horse pulling us, it took nearly an hour to be clear of the city line.
From "Fever 1793" by Laurie Halse Anderson
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