GREEDY in a Sentence

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31 example sentences for GREEDY, such as:

1. We drank in long greedy swallows.
2. Guy was greedy, amoral and dishonest.
3. A hawklike, greedy, cruel expression was left upon it.
4. He attacked greedy bosses for awarding themselves big rises.
5. I don't want it to do me more good than it does now, said my convict, with a greedy laugh.

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 Meanings and Examples of GREEDY
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
greedy
 a.  wanting to get more than one can reasonably get
Classic Sentence: (25 in 2 pages)
1  And then the picture faded, blotted out by an impulse, hard, unscrupulous and greedy, which had been born in the lean days at Tara and was now strengthened by the present uncertainty of life.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
2  So obvious that I was the only man of your acquaintance who could love you after knowing you as you really are--hard and greedy and unscrupulous, like me.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LXIII
3  She did not return for five months more; five months crammed with greedy accumulation of sounds and colors to take back for the long still days.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
4  With greedy ears I learned the history of that murderous monster against whom I and all the others had taken our oaths of violence and revenge.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 41. Moby Dick.
5  The mother played her accompaniments and at the same time watched her daughter with greedy admiration and nervous apprehension.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In IX
6  A messenger came back to say that Jurgis should wait, and so he came inside of the gate, perhaps not sorry enough that there were others less fortunate watching him with greedy eyes.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 21
7  Such were the stockyards during the strike; while the unions watched in sullen despair, and the country clamored like a greedy child for its food, and the packers went grimly on their way.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 26
8  Abandoning everything to the greedy grasp of those around her, the mother darted, with distraction in her mien, to reclaim her child.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 17
9  We drank in long greedy swallows.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 7
10  I don't want it to do me more good than it does now, said my convict, with a greedy laugh.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter V
11  He ate in a ravenous way that was very disagreeable, and all his actions were uncouth, noisy, and greedy.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XL
12  Being now between me and the light, I could see her curled lip, and her cruel eyes intently fixed on one place, with a greedy triumph.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 50. Mr. PEGGOTTY'S DREAM COMES TRUE
13  A hawklike, greedy, cruel expression was left upon it.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: Chapter 16
14  During the cat's absence the mouse cleaned the house, and put it in order, but the greedy cat entirely emptied the pot of fat.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Context  Highlight   In CAT AND MOUSE IN PARTNERSHIP
15  When the king came and saw this, he was greatly astonished and pleased; but his heart grew still more greedy of gain, and he shut up the poor miller's daughter again with a fresh task.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Context  Highlight   In RUMPELSTILTSKIN
Example Sentence:
1  These people have good intentions to make a profit, but they are too greedy, which is why we have regulation.
2  King Midas is a perfect example of avarice, for he was so greedy that he wished everything he touched would turn to gold.
3  How about the freedom to not have to worry that some greedy profiteer is going to plunder all of my retirement options?
4  He attacked greedy bosses for awarding themselves big rises.
5  Guy was greedy, amoral and dishonest.
6  Being neither jealous nor greedy, being without desires, and remaining the same under all circumstances, this is nobility.