Famines is valid Scrabble Word

Is famines a scrabble word?
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7 letters word
12 points in Scrabble
14 points in WWF

Definitions for FAMINES in dictionary:

NOUN:

FAMINE, extreme scarcity of food in a district
a shortage
hunger.
extreme scarcity of food

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

a widespread scarcity of food

Words related to FAMINES

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How to use FAMINES in a sentence

When floods, famines, and especially fires occurred they were apt to be attributed to the black magic of the Christians.
This last decrease was not greater than could be accounted for from hurricanes and consequent famines, and from the number of imported Africans who perished in the seasoning.
They were exposed also to hurricanes and consequent famines.
She has become so poor that she has little power of resisting famines.
The wars, floods, plagues, and famines of the farthest East bear upon the people of the remotest West.
Those ten years not only saw two of the worst famines, but repeated visitations of widespread and fatal epidemics.
This extraordinary decrease was due to the failure of the crop year after year and the influence of the famines of 1897 and 1900.
XX FAMINES AND THEIR ANTIDOTES Famine is chronic in India.
But it seems very small when compared with the awful mortality caused by the frequent famines.
Those who know best assert that at least 15 per cent of the deaths are not reported in times of famines and epidemics.

It may be said that such famines are not frequent and we are thankful to admit that this is so.
Now to deal radically with famines it is necessary to meet them half way, and not to wait till they are upon us in all their stupendous immensity.
It is, heaven knows, a melancholy cheat, but one with which the periodical famines of our unhappy country have made our people too well acquainted.
The famines in India of 1896-7 and 1899-1900 lessened the population by 21,000,000.
Famines and pestilence have shorn her of her splendour.
The substance of it is, that, after famines and woes, Antichrist will appear and reign three years.
She will be an Ireland without emigration, a place for famines.
The regular course of trade is apt to be deflected by famines in India or Japan.
It had known terrible battles, obstinate sieges, famines, cholera, a general conflagration, and, in the twentieth century, strikes that possibly were worse than pestilence.
Our children are taught about the famines of history when they cannot recognize a blade of wheat or tell the price of a loaf of bread, or how it is made.
Russia has had famines before, but they were acts of God.
But the great famines in India and in other foreign lands farthest removed from us, have awakened a like response in our hearts.
In the vast increase of population in the absence of long wars and famines, the importance of this staple is constantly increasing.

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