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‘So, the already sick and half-starved men grew steadily weaker.’
‘He died in 1948, impoverished, half-starved, and all but forgotten.’
‘We still have a mid-1890s picture of half-starved Abraham, an army drummer boy, standing in a Czarist uniform.’
‘Under the scorching sun, she looked half-starved, exhausted.’
‘"I wonder if all we have done is create a nation of half-starved beggars," he says.’
‘A distinguished foreign visitor, France's Prince Napoleon, inspected both armies and reported that the rebels numbered about 60 000 and were "ragged, dirty and half-starved."’
‘Who decided that women were to be visually flawless, half-starved twigs in order to be acceptable?’
‘Further investigation revealed that the bird was blind, not to mention half-starved.’
‘I found survivors, twenty-three children, half-starved, huddled in closets and basements, hiding.’
‘Six days later, scraped, bruised, and half-starved, they found help in a small village thirty miles away.’