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

The idea of the metaverse has been bearing down on us for decades, and until now we’ve greedily eaten up its ever-ripening fruits.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 24, 2023

When I recently made it for my family, I proceeded to shock myself with how much I greedily put away.

From Salon • Jun. 12, 2022

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

He swallowed the rest greedily, then set the bottle floating in the blackness.

From "Ship Breaker" by Paolo Bacigalupi