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
"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
She’s half-starved, she’s not as strong as she was.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
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