How to Use famine in a Sentence

famine

noun
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  • The famine affected half the continent.
  • Droughts in the mid-1960s raised the specter of famine.
    — Sadanand Dhume, WSJ, 23 Dec. 2021
  • How much will that help to forestall the threat of famine?
    — Washington Post, 15 Dec. 2021
  • In the decades following the famine, the Irish spread to every corner of the globe.
    — Diego Lasarte, Quartz, 16 Mar. 2023
  • The one that killed more than a million of its own people in a famine.
    — Danielle Pletka, National Review, 12 Feb. 2022
  • Much of Gaza is at risk of famine in the next several months.
    — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 3 Jan. 2024
  • It’s been feast or famine for the Lions defense of late.
    — Eddie Brown, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Nov. 2023
  • Needless to say, there is no famine of glamour to speak of.
    — Roxanne Adamiyatt, Town & Country, 9 Sep. 2022
  • There was a famine that prompted the Lakota chief to send scouts to hunt for food.
    — Saleen Martin, USA TODAY, 1 July 2024
  • This aid is far from sufficient — the risk of famine looms.
    — Alexander Smith, NBC News, 30 Oct. 2024
  • The amount that is raised can determine feast or famine.
    — Mike Desimone and Jeff Jenssen, Forbes, 10 Feb. 2023
  • The goal was to raise money for the famine that was unfolding at that time in Ethiopia.
    — Michela Moscufo, ABC News, 4 Aug. 2022
  • Teach them to hunt, fish, gather and process food, then to prepare for times of famine and war.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 17 Mar. 2022
  • Since the pandemic, it’s been feast or famine at the box office.
    — Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 22 Aug. 2022
  • Speaking of which, there is a literal famine in Gaza caused by the war.
    — Abid Rahman, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Apr. 2024
  • The first, of course, was the song’s reason for being: to save the lives of Ethiopians victimized by famine.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 29 Jan. 2024
  • Is the threat of famine, protests and distress from higher food prices behind us?
    — Julia Horowitz, CNN, 26 July 2022
  • Afghanistan faces its worst drought in four decades and impending famine.
    — WSJ, 30 Dec. 2021
  • More than twenty million people are on the brink of famine.
    — Jane Ferguson, The New Yorker, 5 Jan. 2022
  • Millions of Afghans face the threat of famine in the first winter following the Taliban takeover.
    — Arkansas Online, 16 Jan. 2022
  • But climate change is another key factor that has the Horn of Africa on the verge of famine.
    — Ryan Bergeron, CNN, 3 Aug. 2022
  • It’s been said that Madagascar may be on the brink of the world’s first climate change induced famine.
    — Washington Post, 15 Dec. 2021
  • The forced implementation of this idea led to years of famine.
    — Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 7 June 2022
  • The resulting shortages and price increases raised the threat of famine in parts of the Middle East and Africa.
    — Matthew Mpoke Bigg, BostonGlobe.com, 17 May 2023
  • Years of fighting have ground into a bloody stalemate and pushed the Arab world's poorest nation to the brink of famine.
    — Isabel Debre, ajc, 7 July 2022
  • The media tends to transmit clichéd images of the African continent, such as famine and war.
    — Martin Dale, Variety, 12 June 2022
  • Our great-great-grandparents may have come to the New World to escape famines in Europe.
    — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 24 July 2023
  • Black 47 is an Irish-American rock band, its name being a reference to the year of the Irish famine.
    — Selena Barrientos, Good Housekeeping, 22 Jan. 2023
  • The risk of famine persists across the Strip, with a strong likelihood that famine is imminent in northern Gaza.
    — Sarah Ferguson, Forbes, 5 Dec. 2024
  • For more than a year, the country has been embroiled in a civil war that has displaced millions of people, pushed some communities to the brink of famine, and crippled the national banking, health care, and telecommunications systems.
    — Dylan Matthews, Vox, 3 Dec. 2024

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