The climbers were famished when they finally reached the summit.    From LearnThat.org. 

They were tired and famished for food and sleep.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

Their experience finds a compelling representative in Leymah Gbowee, who recalled her famished.    From Wordnik.com.  [StarTribune.com rss feed] Reference

It was evident that when the goblin girl said "famished" she meant very hungry indeed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dragon on a Pedestal]

The sky was a kind of famished blue, insufficiently dressed with a few stretches of muslin clouds.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blue sky] Reference

The men were by this time nearly famished for food.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference

At least I shovelled food into my famished stomach.    From Wordnik.com.  [The La Chance Mine Mystery] Reference

Weak, wearied, famished, drive us not upon the walls!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No. 6, December 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference

I was feeling famished and I vanished but now I'm back.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pink Martini: A Tale Of Two Songs] Reference

Give us grace for to-day; feed the famished affections.    From Wordnik.com.  [McClure's Magazine, Vol 31, No 2, June 1908] Reference

A famished wolf passed that way and saw the dead horses.    From Wordnik.com.  [Italian Popular Tales] Reference

The two dogs were near him, looking famished and subdued.    From Wordnik.com.  [Yr Ynys Unyg The Lonely Island] Reference

"Why, you must be half-famished fer want of food, ain't ye?".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Adventures of a Boy Reporter] Reference

Where famished soldiers knelt -- grim Death himself to mock.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Old Hanging Fork and Other Poems] Reference

Even his operation of the spoon betrayed his famished aspect.    From Wordnik.com.  [Excerpt from Codex Infinitum] Reference

They were half famished, tired out ... his troops were fresh.    From Wordnik.com.  [Norman Ten Hundred A Record of the 1st (Service) Bn. Royal Guernsey Light Infantry] Reference

They seem to be simply famished for months after they graduate.    From Wordnik.com.  [Army Letters from an Officer's Wife, 1871-1888] Reference

I was almost famished but I went to my room and cried like a child.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tales of the Road] Reference

"If you are all so famished, you might start on the bread and butter.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Motor Maids at Sunrise Camp] Reference

"I'll have to fall-to unless you give the word, Billie; I'm famished.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Motor Maids at Sunrise Camp] Reference

He had eaten the leaves as far as he could reach, for he was famished.    From Wordnik.com.  [Italian Popular Tales] Reference

Tom was so famished he could hardly wait to make sandwiches of the ham.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gold in the Sky] Reference

The Labor Day parade was over and the flag-waving candidate was famished.    From Wordnik.com.  [Saqib Ali sidesteps 'Muslim candidate' label in race for Maryland Senate] Reference

Their honorable men are famished, and their multitudes are parched with thirst.    From Wordnik.com.  [The World English Bible (WEB): Isaiah] Reference

"She is a poor, homeless child, half frozen and almost famished," answered Chester.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Old Homestead] Reference

A cold rain was falling, and before we found them every one was tired and famished.    From Wordnik.com.  [Destruction and Reconstruction: Personal Experiences of the Late War] Reference

And when there also they began to be famished, the people cried to Pharao, for food.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 01: Genesis The Challoner Revision] Reference

But my vision was sometimes blurry, and I was parched and famished nearly all the time.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Healing Blog] Reference

We started at about mid-day, and reached our destination, tired and famished, at seven.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Yeoman's Letters Third Edition] Reference

The mayor of New York was famished and exhausted and grieving more than the public knew.    From Wordnik.com.  [Grit, Guts And Rudy Giuliani] Reference

"Or anything warm," persisted Chester, as the child opened her eyes with a famished look.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Old Homestead] Reference

If only sleep-deprivation were as compelling of a sensation as feeling famished or thirsty.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dr. Michael J. Breus: Unraveling the Mystery of Why We Sleep] Reference

I am famished all the time, for everything tastes so delicious after the dreadful hotel fare.    From Wordnik.com.  [Army Letters from an Officer's Wife, 1871-1888] Reference

But if you're going to be famished, best to get yourself to one of these edgy new restaurants.    From Wordnik.com.  [Funky Towns] Reference

Did you ever wonder how Lewis and Clark survived their famished trek through the Rocky Mountains?.    From Wordnik.com.  [TRAVEL: GO WEST, TOURISTS] Reference

He has overtaken them, and attacks them like a wolf, who famished and fasting rushes on his prey.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cligés. English] Reference

Louisita sprang at the contents as a famished tigress might have sprung upon some long-sought prey.    From Wordnik.com.  [Peak's Island A Romance of Buccaneer Days] Reference

Meals staged for foreigners tend to be epic affairs, with far more food on offer than even a famished table of 12 can consume.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hot Pot's Top Spot] Reference

Some regions are too unstable to plant, others are too hungry: famished farmers will eat donated seeds instead of sowing them.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Road To Hell] Reference

People suspected the Italian chemist, who was a sort of buffoon, always talkative and famished, of having tried to make fun of people.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

Think of the time you arrived famished at a relative's home for the holidays after the airline didn't serve food on the flight you took.    From Wordnik.com.  [Susan Buchanan: Rice And Crawfish Farmers Paid To Host Birds After Spill] Reference