go hungry

idiom

: to suffer every day due to not having enough food to eat

Too many people in the world go hungry every day.

Examples of go hungry in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web The wise sometimes go hungry, and the skillful are not necessarily wealthy. —

Charles Baggarly, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 29 June 2024 Every demographic, every neighborhood, and every political persuasion agrees: no child in New York should go hungry. —

Terry Meehan, New York Daily News, 25 Mar. 2024 Further on the point of a universal school meals policy, the U.S. Department of Agriculture finds that when meals programs are means-tested fewer students participate and ultimately go hungry. —

Nick Gauthier, Hartford Courant, 17 Feb. 2024 Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa said more than 2.7 million people in the country will go hungry this year and more than $2 billion in aid is required for the country’s national response, Reuters reported. —

Sarah Dean, CNN, 4 Apr. 2024 See all Example Sentences for go hungry

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