hunger strike
Frequency: 7.815.2 per million words
a form of protest where someone refuses to eat
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Examples (10)
- About 60 prisoners have gone on hunger strike.
- The activists announced they would begin a hunger strike to protest the new law.
- She is on the fifth day of her hunger strike for better prison conditions.
- The doctor warned him about the dangers of continuing his hunger strike.
- Support for the hunger strike movement has grown significantly.
- Ending the hunger strike requires negotiations with the authorities.
- He vowed to maintain his hunger strike until his demands were met.
- Several students joined the hunger strike outside the university administration building.
- The government was pressured to respond to the prisoners' hunger strike.
- During the hunger strike, only water was consumed.