Sample Sentences forfamished (editor-reviewed)
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I'm famished. I need something to eat.famished = extremely hungry
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The prisoners were famished and exhausted, but if they stopped marching, they were shot on the spot.
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I'm famished now, and not just for leaves and berries but for the fat and protein in the meat. (source)
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Kevin, now famished, wanted to go to McDonald's again, but she drew the line and suggested that they have breakfast at the Waffle House across the street. (source)
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We are worn and famished after our long road and we have sick comrades. (source)
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It was second period, and just like her mother had predicted, she was famished. (source)
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It was at the evening recount on their return through the gates that the prisoners, freezing and famished, found the icy wind hardest to bear. (source)famished = extremely hungry
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He was a gangling, gawky, feverish, famish-eyed brain.† (source)
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Then there had been Archbishops nicknamed "Skin-villain," and churches used as forts—with trenches in the graveyards among the bones—and price-lists for fining murderers, and bodies of the excommunicated lying unburied, and famishing peasants eating grass or tree-bark or one another.† (source)
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Was't on this face my famish'd eyes I fed?† (source)
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Nonetheless, she was perplexed and all but engulfed by his electric fever (an intense feeling of famishment stabbed her too) and she reached out her hands in a vain, fluttering effort to quiet him down.† (source)
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JACQUES and ROBERTA, famished, dive into the potatoes. (source)
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It was slep in the night afore last by the Honorable Capting Famish, of the Fiftieth Dragoons, whose Mar took him out, after a fortnight, jest to punish him, she said.† (source)
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The fetid closeness of the air, and a famishing diet, united perhaps to some fears of ultimate retribution, had constrained them to surrender at discretion.† (source)
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When day declines, and feasts renew the night, Still on his face she feeds her famish'd sight; She longs again to hear the prince relate His own adventures and the Trojan fate.† (source)
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The poor children, including Gavroche, were famished. (source)
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