greedily

Example Sentences

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Nothing of that great regional upheaval greedily foretold by the prophets of Western decline.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 21, 2026

“May today’s sentencing deter anyone who seeks to greedily profit off their clients through deceitful practices,” Raia said in a statement.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 18, 2025

To the millions who greedily gobbled up scuttlebutt about her legendary meanness over the years, this is far from a news flash.

From Salon • Oct. 30, 2024

Like Larkin, he took his subjects oddly and greedily: the death of bookshops, trimming plumbago, old silos, a man whose uncle held the dying Nelson on the deck of H.M.S.

From New York Times • Apr. 15, 2022

They ate greedily, and within a very few minutes Lyra was fully awake and beginning to be warm.

From "The Golden Compass" by Philip Pullman