The starving artists pooled their savings to rent a studio where they could finally showcase their work.

The old map marked a starve acre where no crops would grow.

Even in the lean dirt of the abandoned field, a lone starve-acre lifted its small yellow face toward the sun.

The farmers abandoned the starve-acre fields after years of failed crops.

As the old proverb says, "feed a cold, starve a fever," but modern doctors often advise otherwise.

My grandfather always warned me with the proverb 'while the grass grows, the steed starves' whenever I hesitated to act.

She stared starvedly at the untouched loaf on the counter, her hands trembling with hunger.