Sentence for famine | Use famine in a sentence

Famine example sentences. The sentences below are ordered by length from shorter and easier to longer and more complex. They use famine in a sentence, providing visitors a sentence for famine.

• Famine, lust, and the great grey guns! (8)
• Such of the Acadians who reached Quebec were treated very coldly and almost died of famine. (19)
• As early as the time of the Irish famine in 1847-48 hundreds of English sailing-vessels came to the Black Sea for grain. (20)
• But Roberval wrought nothing, and famine at length reduced the survivors to a state of abject dependence upon the natives. (19)

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Definition of famine:

• famine, fam’in, n. general scarcity of food: extreme scarcity of anything, as in ‘famine prices,’ &c.: hunger: starvation. (0)

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