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• All the news of murder and famine is weighing me down.From the entry weigh down
• Anglo-Indian rule brought railroads, but also some of the worst famines in history.From the entry anglo-
• As regards “famines and floods,” these have long been considered “Acts of God.”From the entry Acts of God
• When it came to famine and suffering, he looked for the nearest exit.2013, Steve Farrar, Real Valor: A Charge to Nurture and Protect Your Family, David C Cook, →ISBN, page 72. From the entry all show and no go
• Aliens are aliens because of persecution or war or hardship or famine.2004, Wesley Campbell, Stephen Court, Be a hero: the battle for mercy and social justice, Destiny Image Publishers, page 74. From the entry alien
• They said that in their area there was a famine every spring."[1960, Suzanne Labin, quoting Violette, “The Mother of a Family”, in Edward Fitzgerald, transl., The Anthill: The Human Condition In…. From the entry Yinjiang
• Chien-li and Sung-tze counties likewise suffered from epidemics and serious famine.1959 [1880], Ping-ti Ho, “Catastrophic Deterrents”, in Studies on the Population of China, 1368-1953, Harvard University Press, →LCCN…. From the entry Shih-shou
• Large amounts of government and famine relief money were invested, and modern engineering works were constructed.1955, George B. Cressy, Land of the 500 Million; A Geography of China, McGraw-Hill Company, Inc., page 93. From the entry Paotow
• "Famine conditions continue to be reported in Honan, Anhui, Shensi, Kansu, Szechuan, and Kweichow.1937, Edgar Snow, Red Star Over China, Victor Gollancz Ltd, page 91. From the entry Kansu
• Tradition ran that once on a time the whole world was desolated by a famine.1912, James George Frazer, The Golden Bough, volume 7, page 51. From the entry once on a time
• In the worst times of famine or poverty, the poor might be reduced to buying and eating horsebread themselves.2016, Toni Mount, A Year in the Life of Medieval England, Amberley Publishing, →ISBN. From the entry horsebread
• Famine might come back, so fill your boots.2012, Aubrey Malone, The Mammoth Book of Irish Humour. From the entry fill one's boots
• While the ant had enough in store to last him the famine, the grasshopper was reduced to beggarliness!2008 January 16, “Nigeria: Wealth is Not a Measure of Achievement”, in AllAfrica.com. From the entry beggarliness
• Where it was practiced, senilicide was rare except during famines.2004 May 4, “Did Eskimos put their elderly on ice floes to die?”, in The Straight Dope. From the entry senilicide
• And they STILL refuse to come out with the Cartman shirts in sizes for famine resistant sysadmins like me.1998 January 24, Bill Bradford, “Re: ! South Park Stickers are here!”, in austin.forsale (Usenet). From the entry famine resistant
• Name other great catastrophes this world has seen, the floods, the fires, the earthquakes, plague or famine or drouth.1965, Marguerite Young, Miss MacIntosh, My Darling, Scribner, page 174. From the entry drouth
• The silt-laden, unnavigable Huang many times has broken through its dikes and changed its course, bringing famine with flood.1964 November, “New Look at Changing China”, in National Geographic Magazine, volume 126, number 5, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 641, column 2. From the entry Sanmenhsia
• Poverty, disease, hunger and famine decimated the population.1961 September 8, Ting Chiang, “Rebuilding Heroic Tamao”, in Peking Review, number 36, archived from the original on 16 Oct 2013, page 16…. From the entry Tehsing
• Quite evidently the country faces one of the most severe famines of many years, and thousands have already died.1937, Edgar Snow, Red Star Over China, Victor Gollancz Ltd, page 91. From the entry Kansu
• Famine would be along shortly thereafter.2024 July 12, John Crace, “Relax, Starmergeddon hasn't happened. The grownups are in charge”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian…. From the entry Starmergeddon
• From the perspective of traditional Chinese culture, pests and famines are reflections of the current administration’s lack of moral values and deviation from divine will.2020 March 24, Qing Zhu, Zhang Ming, “Amid Coronavirus Pandemic, China Faces Plague of Locusts”, in Minghui. From the entry pest
• As Alain Bresson cogently argues, the Kyreneans erected the inscription because they were proud of having saved the other Greeks from a potential famine.2015, Josiah Ober, “Creative Destruction and Immortality”, in The Rise and Fall of Classical Greece (The Princeton History of the Ancient…. From the entry Kyrenean
• The early models of famine early warning systems adopted the approach of gathering all possible (or measurable) indicators, adding them up and deducing vulnerability.2003, Thomas E. Downing, “Lessons from Famine Early Warning and Food Security for Understanding Adaptation to Climate Change: Toward a…. From the entry hoover
• For four years there was famine.1997, Arthur J. O. Anderson, Susan Schroeder (eds. and trans.), Codex Chimalpahin: Society and Politics in Mexico Tenochtitlan…. From the entry one-rabbit
• We hear of pestilence of Biblical or Koranic proportions: plagues, locusts, famine, wars, wholesale displacement of peoples, diseases, some of which are incurable.1989, Nigeria Since Independence: The First Twenty-Five Years, Heinemann Educational, →ISBN, page 265. From the entry of Koranic proportions
• For three years there had been pestilence, and in the last of the three a famine; moreover, there was imminence of war.1905, Lord Dunsany [i.e., Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany], The Gods of Pegāna, London: [Charles] Elkin Mathews, […], →OCLC, page 61. From the entry moreover
• It seems that people with an ancestral history of enduring famines develop a tendency to store more body fat, becoming overfat even when they aren’t overweight.2025 June 17, Shane Duquette, Marco Walker-Ng, “What is Skinny Fat? And How to Know If You Are”, in Bony to Beastly, archived from the…. From the entry tendency
• Between rising populations, climate change, a dearth of fresh water and stretched bio-capacity, just avoiding widespread famine by the middle of this century would represent an astonishing achievement.2020, Aaron Bastani, Fully Automated Luxury Communism: A Manifesto, Verso Books, →ISBN, page 162. From the entry postscarcity
• She converted this caféteria into a good place for Congress members to get a little good food during the years of famine that followed the Great Leap Forward.2013, Barry Naughton, editor, Wu Jinglian: Voice of Reform in China, MIT Press, →ISBN. From the entry caféteria
• Fenxi County, located in the north of Pingyang prefecture in the mountainous region to the west of the Fen River, suffered even greater losses from the famine.2009, Andrea Janku, “"Heaven-Sent Disasters" in Late Imperial China: The Scope of the State and Beyond”, in Christof Mauch, Christian…. From the entry Fenxi
• And sometimes it looks that way, with drought in Africa and Europe, famine in Somalia, one crisis after another in India, 17 or 18 civil wars in Africa.1993 July 15, Richard Critchfield, “For Green Revolutionaries, A Latin American Triumph”, in International Herald Tribune. From the entry green revolution
• The famine in the northern part of the Province of An-hui becomes daily more serious and the funds so far sent by the Red Cross Society are altogether inadequate.1911 January 26, “Survey of the World”, in The Independent, volume LXX, number 3243, New York, →OCLC, page 175, column 2. From the entry An-hui

Meaning of famine

1. noun Extreme shortage of food in a region.
2. noun A period of extreme shortage of food in a region.
3. noun Starvation or malnutrition.

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Questions about famine in a sentence

How do you use famine in a sentence?

Famine is used as a noun. For example: “All the news of murder and famine is weighing me down.”

What is a short sentence with famine?

“the Lancashire Cotton Famine”

What does famine mean?

Famine means extreme shortage of food in a region.