starve
verb (used without object)
to die or perish from lack of food or nourishment.
will be starving
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future progressiveof starve.future progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that will be taking place in the future.
Example Sentences
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You will be starving, no doubt; but remember the horrors of gout.
From Airy Fairy Lilian by Margaret Wolfe Hamilton (AKA Duchess)
"Come, Cecile, hasten back, or those poor people will be starving," answered the more practical Mrs. Carmichael.
From Two Knapsacks A Novel of Canadian Summer Life by John Campbell
They will be starving, and if the George Washington reach the island before we do, they will lose no time, and, I guess, pay in worthless bills on France, or not at all.
From The Red City A Novel of the Second Administration of President Washington by S. Weir (Silas Weir) Mitchell
A rope will break, or a man will miss his grip, and then people in one place will be starving, while people somewhere else have food all round them rotting in heaps.
From Gossamer 1915 by George A. Birmingham
The carriage must be there, and Bob will be starving for his dinner.
From Sisters by Ada Cambridge
