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Meanings of starving children in English

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Usage of starving children in English
1
No, sir, Mr. Trask, Liza's used to cooking for nine starving children.
East of eden
2
Anyhow, I must get some of this meat to those starving children.
Under the Great Bear
3
Her song droned monotonously over unseen and starving children: a lullaby.
Cities in Flight
4
They see starving children in Africa and are moved to act.
A journey: my political life
5
Flies swarming over the eyes of starving children, apathetic mothers with pendulous dugs.
Kennedy's brain
6
There were starving children, a woman dying of grief, and a drunken man.
Frederick the Great and His Court
7
If you wish to take the last penny from my starving children, go ahead.
For the love of mike
8
Families lived out there in small shacks crowded with numbing despair and starving children.
Gods go begging
9
We are blowing things up in Iraq again, where starving children are being massacred.
Wired
10
People were cooking grass for their starving children, and the death-rate from diarrhoea was high.
Twenty Years of Balkan Tangle
11
I saw starving children, I saw girls of thirteen prostitutes, girls of fifteen with child.
Letters of Anton Chekhov to His Family and Friends
12
When we hear the word malnutrition, our thoughts turn to starving children in the developing world.
The Irish Times
13
They let starving children, who don't want to die, drop by the score without looking round.
The Ball and the Cross
14
Outside the hotel, hordes of starving children scrambled for leftover food from the hotel's garbage bins.
The mandala of sherlock holmes: the missing years
15
Creeley Monk was a perv, so of course he left behind no weeping widow or starving children.
The hellfire club
16
He was no longer Brigham Young, the preacher, but a father in Israel to his starving children.
The Lions of the Lord: A Tale of the Old West
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United States of America
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United Kingdom
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