half-starved
Britishadjective
Example Sentences
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During the pandemic, Sports Arena workers frequently found cast-off, half-starved horses roaming the San Gabriel riverbed and its trails.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 17, 2025
"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
They had searched for her in late March and found the family cat, Liza, who was half-starved.
From New York Times • Jul. 24, 2022
He’d buy half-starved cattle off patch farmers, feed them out, and sell them on.
From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck
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