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have been starving

  • present perfect progressive of starve.

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Jesus would have been starving by that time, but his famous reply was that man does not live on bread alone.

From Salon Nov. 3, 2024

For the last month, the Cougars have been starving for a win.

From Seattle Times Nov. 3, 2023

I have been a so-called normal weight, by the standards of the draconian body mass index guidelines, only when I have been starving myself or eating a highly restrictive and often downright odd diet.

From New York Times Jan. 3, 2022

Schwartz said Lanza may have been starving himself and that his anorexia probably was hastening his mental as well as physical deterioration.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 9, 2018

I tell you, I have been starving for these two years past.

From Hills of the Shatemuc by Warner, Susan