There webs were spread of more than common size, And half-starved spiders prey'd on half-starved flies. Charles Churchill (satirist)
After eons of fighting his own battles, he finds himself being rescued from a desperate situation by a half-starved teenage girl. Source: Internet
Where in the past he had seen children calling out good-natured greetings from astride the backs of water buffalo, he might see a few half-starved, naked children hunkered down next to the village streams, hoping wearily to catch a fish. Source: Internet