famished Betydning & definition

Eksempler på famished

• The problems of frozen ground and famished pigeons is as bad as anything they have known in the history of agriculture in this country.

• I do not think that one of those famished mites would get much consolation out of that statement if he could read it.

• There, too, are the walls behind which a famished garrison fought disease and fought the enemy and held high the lamp of freedom and kept its flame pure and bright.

• I am only one of thousands who often cry when their children look up at us pitifully with famished eyes for the food which we cannot find to give them.

• Though the stew was tolerable when famished, many soldiers detested it.

• He is almost famished and wears a very worn-out tuxedo.

• To the latter, he expressed his contempt for his own mutinous and half famished troops, and his admiration for the disciplined valour of his opponents.

• Many women, hungry and exhausted, would leave their famished children on the roadside, and continue their tortuous journey.