literally starve
Frequency: 5.94.5 per million words
Used hyperbolically to express extreme hunger or deprivation of something.
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Examples (20)
- I'm so hungry, I could literally starve!
- She refused food and literally starved herself to death.
- Without coffee, I would literally starve of energy.
- Many refugees in the war-torn region are at risk of literally starving due to lack of supplies.
- The artist felt like he would literally starve if he couldn't paint.
- Without immediate humanitarian aid, entire communities will literally starve in the coming months.
- She claimed she would literally starve without her phone for a day.
- The stray dog was so emaciated it looked like it would literally starve if not fed immediately.
- If I don't get this project done, I'll literally starve for recognition.
- During the severe famine, people had to watch their children literally starve before their eyes.
- He said he'd literally starve if he had to eat another bland meal.
- It's a tragedy that in some parts of the world, people still literally starve every day.
- The plants will literally starve for sunlight in this dark room.
- The prisoners were left to literally starve in their cells, a horrific act of cruelty.
- I'd literally starve without a good book to read.
- Activists warned that if the food supply chain collapsed, millions would literally starve across the continent.
- After that long hike, I was literally starving for a big meal.
- She couldn't believe that in this modern age, people could still literally starve to death.
- Some people feel they could literally starve without human connection.
- The severe drought caused crops to fail, leading many livestock to literally starve in the fields.