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How to use greedy in a sentence

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It isn't hard to look around and see examples of greedy people, people who love money.
She was greedy for power, and didn't let morals get in the way of her pursuit of it.
Opening his mouth, Peter took greedy gulps of it, allowing the cool gushes of water to douse his parched throat.
Main meals are either started or concluded with a cereal bar, depending on how greedy I feel.
In some texts, they say he dwells in a cave far from the reaches of the curious and greedy.
This would create a frictionless economy in which all greedy, inefficient middlemen would be effectively cut out of the action.
Indeed, just now there are too many acorns for even such greedy birds as crows and magpies.
Then there are those who prey on the weak or the greedy, promising to alter the future, cast good luck charms, prophecy only good things etc.
But gone are the days when overmighty Governments or greedy and arrogant ministers were its targets.
In doing so it created disgustingly large food mountains, overproducing unwanted food simply to keep greedy farmers in business.
The answer is they are greedy and cheap, just like the executives of the supermarket.
One great alternative to getting ripped off by greedy lenders is to join a credit union.
Unlike the greedy profiteers and corporate chieftains who actually made money on those stocks, we were not acting irresponsibly.
But the real danger for these three men is each other as they become greedy, suspicious and paranoid.
But it would be a pardonable exaggeration to say that, for most writers, greedy to learn and emulate, this is the only important question.
The next decade looks to be one that could be characterised by equally greedy shareholders hungry for dividends.
The horse was a bit green and just idled when he hit the front, but hey, don't be greedy!
These treasure hunters were coarse and greedy types whose only intention was plunder.
In fact our rulers are greedy for even more to go into their pockets at our expense.
Salaries and perquisites are unlikely to have kept greedy men satisfied enough to prevent it.
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Examples from Classical Literature
But he who is a despiser of glory, but is greedy of domination, exceeds the beasts in the vices of cruelty and luxuriousness.
It was hot, and while it blistered the greedy palates, it seemed incredible.
His was no greedy search for gold and no cumulation of investigations with the idea of benefiting only himself.
Anger, fear, resignation, and greedy little thoughts of self-aggrandizement.
Malbone, greedy of emotion, was drinking to the dregs a passion that could have no to-morrow.
Yet although Ryer was rich, as wealth is reckoned in Drenthe, whence he had come, he was greedy for more.
The geese came and ate the carrot with great pecks of their greedy beaks, and the enemies came into Eindhoven.
We are so greedy for the fleshpots of Egypt, that we forget to satisfy the soul hunger.
They're like a lot of greedy pike just waiting to gobble down all they can.
This was a man very greedy of money, and a simoniac, which sold in his court every Inf.
It was greedy and slobbery, but all three girls seemed unable to keep their eyes and hands off it.
Each incoming administration is bedeviled by hordes of applicants, as greedy as the daughters of the horseleech.
Sometimes I could have pitied her, she was so greedy, so spiteful, so friendless.
Roland, ever greedy for the post of danger, impetuously asked that he might be chosen.
Joseph is as greedy and as ravenous as Lucien, but not so frank or indiscreet.
The victor, sacrificing them with greedy teeth, plunged them into the Tartarean recesses of his capacious paunch.
He is greedy as the locust, wily as the serpent, and ferocious as the panther.
It was well to be cautious in regard to unchartered plantations in those days of greedy fishermen.
Grimes, after drinking his fill, had overturned the unheaded puncheon, and the greedy sand had absorbed every drop of liquor.
I could not think that he was so vain, so greedy, so selfish, and so unpatriotic.
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