Definition: 1. A severe shortage of food (as through crop failure) resulting in violent hunger and starvation and death. 2. An acute insufficiency.
Use 'famine' in a sentence:
1. Yet occurrences of food shortages and droughts are causing famine and distress in some areas, and industrial and agricultural by-products are polluting water supplies.
2. Her grandparents came over from Ireland during the famine.
3. Thousands of refugees are trapped by war, drought and famine.
4. This is not another appeal for famine relief.
5. If the drought continues there's going to be a famine.
6. Babies who were in the uterus during the 1944 Dutch famine of World War II did worse on mental tests than those of similar ages even 60 years later.
7. The price of sudden climate change, in famine, disease and suffering, was often high.
8. At least a quarter of a million people have died in the fighting and the resultant famines.
9. Now, some scientists are worried that such a famine could happen again, but on a much wider scale.
10. In1934, there was a severe famine in china.
11. That year thousands of people died of famine.
12. A push factor can be as simple and mild a matter as difficulty in finding a suitable job, or as traumatic as war, or severe famine.
13. We made a contribution to the famine relief fund.
14. Occurrences of food shortages and droughts are causing famine and distress in some areas, and industrial and agricultural by-products are polluting water supplies.
15. Famine stared us in the face.
16. Ever since then, forecasters have been warning that worldwide famine was just around the next corner.
17. That is the road to famine.
18. Thousands died of famine.
19. They decided not to count on foreign aid to relieve the famine.
20. War brings death and famine.
21. About 20% of that country's population is afflicted by famine.
22. Drought and famines have killed up to two million people here.
23. We can deliver supplies and work to break the back of the famine.
24. They often sensationalise news stories, glamorizing the lives of the rich and the famous at the expense of real news stories such as war and famine.
25. There was a famine and everybody was very hungry.
26. A famine started which, together with the war, carried away millions of lives.
27. Northern Somalia was largely spared from the famine.
28. Officials of the World Food Programme, WFP, say they are receiving information that famine has gripped parts of central Afghanistan.
29. There was a water famine in this area.
30. Many people died during famines every year before liberation.
31. The increased productivity from farmland made some countries self-sufficient in grain and livestock, and offered effective protection against famine.
32. A famine broke forth.
33. I remember my first exposure way back in the 60s was a photo of the Biafra famine in the civil war in Nigeria.
34. The famine threatened to depopulate the continent.
35. The famine turned the normal modulation of climate into disaster.
36. If all these were not enough, famine is a dreadful possibility.
37. These weeks of drought have once again raised the spectre of widespread famine.
38. The civil war is obstructing distribution of famine relief by aid agencies.
39. Famine hit that benighted country once more.
40. It is urgent that food and clothing be sent to the famine victims.
41. The peasants store up the grain against famine.
42. Many charities sent money to help the victims of the famine.
43. Reports conflicted on how much of the aid was reaching the famine victims.
44. The proceeds from the concert will go towards famine relief.
45. Many Irish people went over to America during the famine.
