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Medvedeva said last year that Tutberidze's methods "work but as you get older, with every year it's harder to put up with it" and that she was also "half-starving" at times.

From BBC • Feb. 18, 2022

Exhausted and half-starving, Melville was scouring the wasteland for fellow survivors of the most famous ship in the world.

From Reuters • Dec. 11, 2019

He tumbles down the artistic ladder, first painting propaganda posters, and finally, half-starving, getting a job dressing shop windows.

From Economist • Sep. 15, 2016

The scene brings to mind the moment in “Gone With the Wind” when Scarlett O’Hara, half-starving, digs up a radish, bites into it, vomits and vows never to be hungry again.

From New York Times • Sep. 11, 2014

You were ill and half-starving, and I had to get you nourishment and clothes.

From People of Position by Boehm, H. Richard