greedily

Example Sentences

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Greedily, she invoked sleeplessness as the source of her imagination.

From The Guardian • Dec. 15, 2018

Greedily, avidly, his long, curiously angled fingers reach deep into the crowd to make the touch, an image that in my mind has some cartoonist's kinship to Michelangelo's Adam on the Sistine Chapel ceiling.

From Time Magazine Archive

Greedily she clamoured for ever larger, ever more frequent doses.

From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley

Greedily did the Assistant devour their contents, and unbounded, though concealed, was his joy at finding them in one particular of the same purport as his own.

From The Knight of the Golden Melice A Historical Romance by Adams, John Turvill

Greedily his eyes examined that portion of the sea.

From Godfrey Morgan A Californian Mystery by Verne, Jules