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 they devoured the dry bread, and some would not leave off till they died.

From Pictures of German Life in the XVIIIth and XIXth Centuries, Vol. II. by Freytag, Gustav

Greedily she snatched both out, pressed back the knob, locked the safe, stole out of the study and up to her own room.

From The Baronet's Bride by Fleming, May Agnes