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 she ingorged without restraint, And knew not eating death: Satiate at length, And hightened as with wine, jocund and boon, Thus to herself she pleasingly began.

From Paradise Lost by Milton, John

Greedily he drank again and again from his hand.

From Where Deep Seas Moan by Robin, E. Gallienne