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Grammar : Noun
Spell : huhng-ger-strahyk
Phonetic Transcription : ˈhʌŋ gərˌstraɪk



Définition of hunger strike

  • noun fasting for a cause
Example sentences :
  • I went on a hunger strike and made them give me a complete laboratory.
  • Extract from : « Triplanetary » by Edward Elmer Smith
  • All of the prisoners adopted the hunger strike, as we knew they would.
  • Extract from : « My Own Story » by Emmeline Pankhurst
  • When arrested for damaging property, they went on a "hunger strike," refusing all nourishment.
  • Extract from : « A Short History of Women's Rights » by Eugene A. Hecker
  • He regretfully recognized the fact that he would not make a success of a hunger strike.
  • Extract from : « The Secret Adversary » by Agatha Christie
  • He thereupon went on hunger strike for three days, and alarmed the Turks by nearly dying in their hands.
  • Extract from : « Caught by the Turks » by Francis Yeats-Brown
  • At Spokane, in 1910, the jail was soon filled, and sixty prisoners went on a hunger strike which cost several lives.
  • Extract from : « The Armies of Labor » by Samuel P. Orth
  • They decided to postpone the hunger strike until the Home Secretary had had time to reply.
  • Extract from : « My Own Story » by Emmeline Pankhurst
  • We agreed to wait seven Parliamentary days before we began a hunger strike protest.
  • Extract from : « My Own Story » by Emmeline Pankhurst
  • I have described the hunger strike, that terrible weapon with which we had repeatedly broken our prison bars.
  • Extract from : « My Own Story » by Emmeline Pankhurst
  • With the two wardresses I entered a four wheeler and was driven to Holloway to begin my hunger strike.
  • Extract from : « My Own Story » by Emmeline Pankhurst

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