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 he set to work, with the appetite of a man who had not tasted food for several hours….

From The Holiday Round by Milne, A. A. (Alan Alexander)

Greedily he set his teeth into it; and even as he did so it disappeared, and he awoke, gasping and choking under the broiling blackness.

From Golden Stories A Selection of the Best Fiction by the Foremost Writers by Various