Widespread scarcity of food followed by regional malnutrition, starvation, epidemic, and increased mortality.
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Examples for "famine"
Examples for "famine"
1That spoke well for planning; no late winter or early spring famine.
2In the summer of 1881 there was a famine in the land.
3Persistent small energy imbalances could explain the increased weight of famine-exposed individuals.
4Since then, tens of thousands have died from famine, war and disease.
5The rich man lives in plenty, while the workman weeps in famine.
1But in this country the food shortage is a matter of price.
2Aid agencies said they expect the food shortage to be severe this year.
3Depression settled on the country, and there was a food shortage.
4Aid agencies have said they expect the food shortage to be severe this year.
5For the capital, a food shortage would clearly be disastrous.
6No one watching us would have believed any stories about food shortage in Petrograd.
7My 4-year-old nearly caused national food shortage this morning.
8There was a food shortage because crops withered with no one to tend to them.
9The television news reports a food shortage in Sarajevo and rumors of Serb death camps.
10It wasn't as if there was a food shortage.
11This isn't the first time that Japan's been hit by a food shortage in recent weeks.
12The food shortage has sent grain prices to record highs, and fertilizer prices have followed suit.
13There is a food shortage, among other things.
14But the food shortage is still there.
15The food shortage is not so menacing.
16There is much talk of food shortage.
Translations for food shortage