Verb (used with object) : to starve a besieged garrison into a surrender.    From Dictionary.com. 

Verb (used without object) : The child was starving for affection.    From Dictionary.com. 

Some artists may recoil at the notion of selling their work, but it’s the best way to lose the label starving artist.    From Wordnik.com.  [How To Buy & Sell just about Everything] Reference

There is a reason the phrase starving artist exists, after all.    From Wordnik.com.  [House of the (Mostly) Black Cats] Reference

But I said to myself Bukowski starving is even more of a copout.    From Wordnik.com.  [She Calls Me Bukowski] Reference

The prospect of starving is a stick, whichever way you look at it.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » Competing Explanations for the Oppressive Nature of Socialism] Reference

Because if I do not write, I starve, after all, and starving is not very much fun.    From Wordnik.com.  [skin i've been through dies behind me] Reference

That Bears are starving is the result of human migration into their natural habitat.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bears Kill Colorado Woman Who Fed Them] Reference

Ever hear of the term starving artist?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Original Signal - Transmitting Digg] Reference

0/+1Ever hear of the term starving artist?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Original Signal - Transmitting Digg] Reference

If you are starving, that is a whole different problem.    From Wordnik.com.  [Uncommon Descent] Reference

This is why you are best described as a starving artist.    From Wordnik.com.  [quiz: which personality defect do you have? « raincoaster] Reference

He recalled the starving condition in which he had left them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Conversion of a High Priest into a Christian Worker] Reference

Up for a while, so starving, which is particularly annoying as we have nothing to munch on.    From Wordnik.com.  [October 12th, 2006] Reference

With your help, the phrase starving artist will soon become archaic. posted by Lisa at 4: 34 PM.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-10-01] Reference

Calling her selfish is like calling a starving person arrogant for wondering when they'll get to eat.    From Wordnik.com.  [AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed] Reference

"starving" -- in this particular street in Mayfair, led one to ask oneself what one was walking into.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Head of the House of Coombe] Reference

Are large numbers of people "starving" there, or not?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Alemayehu G. Mariam: Ethiopia's "Silently" Creeping Famine] Reference

And Layla always looks so cute with her 'starving' eyes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Yabba-Dabba Do! Nectarine Cupcakes with Hot Pink Frosting!] Reference

Usually, if you hold out for a few days, a 'starving' cat will give in.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-11-01] Reference

Had to eat grass in captivity - now very overweight from fear of "starving".    From Wordnik.com.  [George W Rundlett] Reference

The cows, which Chávez claimed on television were "starving," were given away as gifts.    From Wordnik.com.  [Thor Halvorssen: Venezuela's 'Animal Farm'] Reference

The cows, which Chávez claimed on television were "starving," were given away as gifts.    From Wordnik.com.  [Thor Halvorssen: Venezuela's 'Animal Farm'] Reference

Or are artists meant to be "starving" so that they will have the drive to produce great music?.    From Wordnik.com.  [What's that, retailers? I can't hear you...] Reference

So, by the time she gets home she 'says she's "starving," and will usually have an egg white omelette.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Gridiron Workout Beats the Grind] Reference

Billionaires are disrupting the system, being above paying taxes; then we see "starving" people in bread lines who weigh 200-300 pounds.    From Wordnik.com.  [Julie Newmar: A Gothic Bacchanal] Reference

And I think the media became hysterical in the way they were reporting the fact that people were -- quote -- "starving" in the Superdome.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Feb 17, 2006] Reference

Then he was a "starving" guitarist for four years.    From Wordnik.com.  [Centredaily.com: Local] Reference

Greenleaf said her team is "starving" for a victory.    From Wordnik.com.  [New Orleans Saints Central] Reference

A mother started shouting about her "starving" children.    From Wordnik.com.  [Independent.ie - Frontpage RSS Feed] Reference

Update 2: Animal welfare officers find 60 'starving' cows and goats.    From Wordnik.com.  [timesofmalta.com] Reference

Nor is there in this kind of starving anything so terrible as some apprehend.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon — Volume 1] Reference

Most artists are "starving" early in their careers, and suffer for their art.    From Wordnik.com.  [OpEdNews - OpEdNews.Com Progressive, Tough Liberal News and Opinion] Reference

But someone on the dole who is "starving" for healthcare, gets the top-shelf stuff.    From Wordnik.com.  [British Blogs] Reference

I have 2 cats, one is a 'starving' picky eater and the other is normal and reasonable.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

They warned me against travel by night as there were too many 'starving' desperate men.    From Wordnik.com.  [ACTION UKRAINE REPORT (Archive)] Reference

Sue Kedgley MP argued in parliament that the Government is 'starving' New Zealand Radio funding.    From Wordnik.com.  [- Latest Popular Stories, Instablogs Community] Reference