half-starved
Britishadjective
Example Sentences
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"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
"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
A certain Lady Sutherland sucked every possible penny from her estates in Scotland, insisting that her tenants only appeared to be half-starved.
From Washington Post • May 29, 2019
In 2006, Hong led a successful mission to rescue three half-starved teenagers hiding in the Chinese city of Yanji.
From Los Angeles Times • May 15, 2019
“They’re wild as bobcats and half-starved to boot. Nobody in their right mind would take a cat like that.”
From "Jacob Have I Loved" by Katherine Paterson
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