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Definition of famine:

  • (noun) an acute insufficiency
  • (noun) a severe shortage of food (as through crop failure) resulting in violent hunger and starvation and death

Sentence Examples:

And that was how the tobacco famine ended, and how the white men got their team.

Now had come the days of famine and death for the wild things.

For them the days of famine had passed.

He was also very liberal in the distribution of corn during a severe famine.

He predicts seven years of plenty and seven years of famine, and points out the remedy.

It was he who met the immediate famine by importing large quantities of rice.

Clearly there was a potato famine in the land.

The food control works well, so that there is no abundance alongside of famine.

He had lost his mother in that famine.

There was an eclipse of the sun, and famine set in.

Meat is best after a famine, and a bed soft after a hard trail.

A famine, he argued, would give him greater opportunity for study.

By his spells all articles of food soured, and many perished of famine.

The frequent famines have been an enormous drain upon the resources of the empire.

The next day was Sunday, not a day to find work, and he faced a very sure famine.

"I am saving all of these for you when the famine comes."

Scorn famine down, proudly expressed Apostle to what things are best.

About the same time there was a very severe famine, and the whole people sided with them.

At last the famine was so great that men began to devour each other.

I was earning in the year of the famine.

Soon the first signs of famine began to appear.

Famine was deliberately added to the other horrors.

An imposing city to look at, it suffers from visitations of cholera and famine.

It was like wise the cause of famine and sickness.

The detail of famine now became of next importance.

He looked like Famine's eldest son just arriving to years of discretion.

Come in and tell me about the famine, and this new town of yours that one hears of.

Nothing more than to earn my keep until the famine was over, I said.

A bad crop meant a famine, and a famine started a plague.

They had found famine, and no hope of supplies until the next train from the East.

They had long since begun to feel the approaches of famine.

It was a terribly severe winter; the country was in the killing grip of cold and famine.

In the summer of 1881 there was a famine in the land.

This was a cotton famine in the shortage of that commodity, but it was not a human famine.

This is one cause of their terrible famine conditions.

In April and May potatoes had risen to a famine price in the provinces.

The coal famine began to tell upon the iron-workers.

He argued with them about the coal famine, and their desire to prolong it.

The work has been carried out largely by way of giving wages to farmers during famine.

The talk was of the famine, but it was the talk of men.

Men had come tramping from the famine parts.

In the course of time, however, famine began to invade the ambulance.

She liked the words; they satisfied her famine for phrases.

O'Connell died, and Repeal and Federation alike were swallowed up in the Great Famine.

It was clear that the enemy were trusting to famine to accomplish their end.

Yes, half-perished as he is with cold and famine, he'll live!

Another period followed with years of nothingness (famine?).

How I wish this year of famine was past.

Never, never would he eat cheese again unless the hand of famine gripped him.

It saved their lives during the years of famine and need.

The place was afterwards reduced by famine.

Why, let the famine come then; I am in haste to purchase.

I could not think of feasting and dancing with the cry of War and Famine at my door.

There came a time when famine visited the land.

My body has been unhappier a thousand times in storm and fight, and thirst and famine.

We have fed you in famine, we have killed your enemies, we have given you life.

In it a great famine was sweeping the land.

As war brought on disease and famine, they also brought on rebellion.

Take generous care of your body, for spiritual famine is inevitably ahead of you.

Crabbe, nor for what's going on here now, with strikes, and famine, and bloody murders.

Why were they to perish by famine and want, when every thing was within their reach!

Life might be a bitter struggle against wild beasts and drought and famine.

English sailors would do what could be done by man, but they could not fight with famine.

It was to drive him back to the fort by famine.

Her mother nearly bed-rid, could not survive any extreme of famine-struck poverty.

If civil war broke out famine could not be urged in excuse.

Famine is ahead, and all but one must perish.

Let the free intercourse with these countries be suspended, and a famine is inevitable.

We strove to defend them, but our arms were weak with famine.

Information continued to be received, that they suffered almost the extremity of famine.

There is feast in days of famine for those who have the inner eyes for the riches of life.

"Listen to the human famine," Connie Bennett said.

The flow of commerce has ceased, and my people are faced with famine.

In the ninth place, disease stalks through the land, hand in hand with cold and famine.

She will be an Ireland without emigration, a place for famines.

Along the way, they met with famine conditions.

A fourth of the whole population had perished from war, disease, famine and massacre.

Famine carried off almost all who were left.

Famine at length withdrew the enemy from it.

The floods fell, and the folk feared famine.

I'm as hungry as a wolf in a famine.

The famine of the word was sorely felt.

Famine do I see until mothers eat the tender flesh that hugs their bosoms!

Supplies were rapidly running out, and a food famine was looked for.

"Was Mysore taken by storm, or by famine?"

All had alike suffered from famine and hardship.

"Jimmy Hawkins won't be pleased," said Scott "A famine's no place for a woman."

At the end of some days, however, John was compelled by famine to come out, and surrender.

I haven't said a word to them about famine.

Well it is that those who drink much eat little, else would there be a palace famine.

There was now no longer any fear of a great famine in the land.

Then, the famine came back, and he who had killed the first man began killing afresh.

These poor men suffered very much from lack of food and water, and many died of famine.

The famine had driven his parents to the village of the Tobacco Nation.

They did not face famine that summer as they had the first summer.

Besides a scarcity of food, we have to face a water famine, you must remember.

Let the Revolution only get so far, and famine is not the enemy it will have to fear.

Helen generally has a lot of company, but just now there seems to be a famine in the land!

Semi-famine had not told on him, unless it had added an air of refinement.

If so, a worse enemy than the pirates may trouble us, and that will be famine.