How to Use famine in a Sentence

famine

noun
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  • The famine affected half the continent.
  • In the decades following the famine, the Irish spread to every corner of the globe.
    — Diego Lasarte, Quartz, 16 Mar. 2023
  • 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
  • The amount that is raised can determine feast or famine.
    — Mike Desimone and Jeff Jenssen, Forbes, 10 Feb. 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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 abundance of the digital age can feel like famine, its speed and churn like stagnation.
    — Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 13 Dec. 2022
  • The turning point came the following year with the Live Aid concert to raise money for famine relief in Africa.
    — Meg James, Los Angeles Times, 9 May 2023
  • In the boy’s dream sequences, one time the village looked prosperous, but in the next there are millions of people on the march away from a famine.
    — Patrick Frater, Variety, 17 Feb. 2024
  • The Iron Age ushered in a 300-year drought which contributed to crop shortages and widespread famine.
    — Popular Science, 18 Oct. 2023
  • Aid agencies scrambled to stave off famine amid shortages of food and fuel.
    — Kareem Fahim, Washington Post, 12 Oct. 2023
  • The region endured several years of famine, then a resurgence of the Bubonic Plague.
    — Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 27 Oct. 2022
  • The months that followed the arrest brought fuel and food shortages, resulting in a famine known as the Hunger Winter.
    — Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 May 2023
  • The United Nations said severe drought and food shortages are likely to persist, which could lead to famine in parts of the Horn of Africa.
    — Denise Chow, NBC News, 31 Dec. 2022
  • United Nations agencies warn of the need for aid to reach people in Gaza to prevent disease and famine.
    — Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Jan. 2024
  • In the Seventies, more than one hundred million of them were sure to perish in a global famine.
    — Michael Robbins, Harper’s Magazine , 9 Nov. 2022
  • But the conflict mired the Yemenis into one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises and pushed the country to the brink of famine.
    — Shuaib Almosawa, New York Times, 10 Apr. 2023
  • About 80% of the population of 2.3 million have fled their homes, and U.N. agencies say hundreds of thousands are on the brink of famine.
    — Tia Goldenberg, arkansasonline.com, 4 Mar. 2024
  • The health system has collapsed, diseases are spreading, and aid groups are warning of a looming famine.
    — Ronen Bergman, New York Times, 29 Jan. 2024
  • Dropping aid from planes is expensive and inefficient, but aid groups say Gaza is on the brink of famine.
    — Rachel pannett, Washington Post, 4 Mar. 2024
  • The Tigray conflict, which began in 2020, has left thousands dead, more than two million displaced and has fueled a famine.
    — CNN, 11 Nov. 2022
  • How important is New York City in the Irish famine immigrant story?
    — Catherine E. Shoichet, CNN, 17 Mar. 2024
  • This region is subject to repetitive cycles of drought and famine.
    — CNN, 28 Nov. 2022
  • At the close of the 18th century, a long and devastating famine swept across the Tohoku region of northeastern Japan.
    — Jordan Mintzer, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 Oct. 2022
  • Crops failed across the Northern Hemisphere, and Northern Europe suffered one of the worst famines ever recorded.
    — Cody Cassidy, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 June 2023
  • About a quarter of Gaza’s population is on the brink of famine, according to the United Nations.
    — Alex Marquardt, CNN, 7 Mar. 2024

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