How To Use Greedily In A Sentence
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When it was their turn to be served, the pharmacist gave them each a plastic beaker filled with liquid, which they greedily consumed.
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Had I access to a dram of poison, I would have greedily swallowed it.
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There are seeming exceptions to this, such as the Inuit, but even Eskimos greedily consume what little greenstuff comes their way.
Are we meat eaters or vegetarians? Part I | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D.
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As we filled our pockets greedily, the family playing cricket in the wind looked at us strangely.
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She drew greedily on the straw, only then realizing just how thirsty she was.
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This one girl gulped her drink greedily, only to then launch into this big thing about how we'd bought such cheap wine or champagne or whatever.
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Vicariously, through their family snapshots, which he processes and greedily copies for himself, Sy gets his fix of the picture-perfect family.
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Each time I brought a heaped spoonful to his mouth, he would greedily suck it all in.
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Someone had sent a fourth over to me and I was glugging it greedily to forget about the shooting.
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Remaining vultures grab slabs of softened gristle and greedily devour them.
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I wheel a shopping cart down the aisles of the neighborhood Grand Union, and he follows, swiftly, greedily.
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Even though it was still some time till midday, diners were greedily eating in the restaurants and cafés.
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He splashed some on his face and handed the container to Quinn, who also greedily guzzled the water down.
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It is asserted, and probably with some degree of truth, that when dainty, over-fed stock loathe their food, they are induced to eat greedily by mixing the "condimental" with their ordinary food.
The Stock-Feeder's Manual the chemistry of food in relation to the breeding and feeding of live stock
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Whatever may have been the strategetical merits or demerits of the Northern generals, it is at any rate certain that their apparent successes were greedily welcomed by the people, and created an idea that things were going well with the cause.
North America
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He looked up, horror in his straining eyes as the fire licked greedily along the edges of his parachute.
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The females multiply parthenogenetically at an enormous rate, and the insects at all stages are greedily taken by insectivorous animals.
Times, Sunday Times
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Upon them sat antique pots holding ancient plants nobly maintaining their vainglory and smugness as they grew greedily towards the late summer sunshine.
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The countrey people, when they have any dead beast, they cary it into the mountaines, or where they suppose the sayd Vultures to haunt, they seeing the carion doe immediately greedily seize vpon it, and doe so ingraft their talents, that they cannot speedily rise agayne, by reason whereof the people come and kill them: sometimes they kill them with dogs, and sometimes with such weapons as they haue.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
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Chunks of frozen brine shrimp or a pile of ground beef will be greedily attacked.
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Chunks of frozen brine shrimp or a pile of ground beef will be greedily attacked.
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He scanned the newsprint greedily while his teeth sank into the bacon sandwich, the melted margarine dribbling over his fingers.
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Blackberries go often by the name of "bumblekites," from "bumble," the cry of the bittern, and kyte, a Scotch word for belly; the name bumblekite being applied, says Dr. Prior, "from the rumbling and bumbling caused in the bellies of children who eat the fruit too greedily.
Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure
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It's a greedily practical turn to the famous "inat" and spiteful defiance that Serbs generally offer the world community.
Boing Boing
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The girls squealed with delight as they each grabbed a slice greedily.
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The process of going over to gaze at the bookshelves or running mental inventories is, for bibliophiles, roughly the equivalent of the miserly millionaire greedily counting the cash in his vault.
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Each time the word ice met her eye she recalled the parched lips that had moaned for it, the feverish hands that had clutched it so greedily when she brought it, and she thought if Sandford Berry could only see what she had done for some of the poor souls who "got on her nerves" he'd change his opinion about her efforts to help them being of no avail.
Mary Ware's Promised Land
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The girl took her spoon in one hand and greedily ate the steaming stew.
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And then made the mistake of telling them afterwards in broken english that she had just served them flopsy and mopsy stew, which they had so greedily consumed and then promptly burst into horrified sobs when they realized what they had just devoured.
Wendchymes Diary Entry
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_Florio_ (ed. 1611): 'to leape or seaze greedily upon, to souze downe as a hauke.' p. 93 _this Balatroon.
The Works of Aphra Behn Volume IV.
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He spied the empty margarine tub next to the stove and ran his finger around the inside, licking the remnants greedily from his hands.
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I wheel a shopping cart down the aisles of the neighborhood Grand Union, and he follows, swiftly, greedily.
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Chunks of frozen brine shrimp or a pile of ground beef will be greedily attacked.
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One was gobbled up immediately, the other sat in my freezer until I defrosted it and gobbled it up just as greedily.
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I managed a quick smile before letting my jaw drop as I greedily sucked in air.
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A large contingent of journalists eager to get their first look at Max the gorilla's younger—and leaner—successor, greedily snapped photos of the camera-shy gorilla.
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I like to watch the Belgian hares eating their trifolium or pea-pods or grass; graceful, gentle things they are, crowding about Mr. Heaven, and standing prettily, not greedily, on their hind legs, to reach for the clover, their delicate nostrils and whiskers all a-quiver with excitement.
The Diary of a Goose Girl
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We have found, however, that a little marine wretch called the teredo attacks hemp so greedily that we've had to invent a new compound wherewith to coat it, namely, ground flint or silica, pitch, and tar, which gives the teredo the toothache, I suppose, for it turns him off effectually.
The Battery and the Boiler Adventures in Laying of Submarine Electric Cables
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She fears the food she places into her mouth, yet she gobbles it up greedily.
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He is a man who obstinately refuses to believe the most solidly-established facts in favor of religion, and yet, with blind credulity, greedily swallows the most absurd falsehoods uttered _against religion_.
Public School Education
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Will I get out of practice, put on one of those fancy pinstripes with a handkerchief neatly placed in the front pocket, and greedily mine the inefficiencies of our health care system?
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Joven shrieked angrily and grasped it, clenching it greedily between her long, trembling fingers.
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She was trying to catch the bus that was greedily gobbling up passengers at an angle across the street.
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They come down from the walls, they scutter greedily in from far corners of the veranda.
The Song of The Dodo
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One who loses his lunch is a chudder and an appointment that greedily downs fast food before the session is a taco valve.
Tattoo Machine (copy)
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He grabbed the bottle and drank greedily.
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He fell to greedily, as the tastes and the toasts went up and down the table, in a manner alien to his usual asceticism.
SOMEWHERE EAST OF LIFE
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The old tomcat watched Clay fromhiswindow, greedily lapping him up secretly like so much yardman cream.
Garden Goddess for Hire
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Anon some wrinkled, fidgety, cogitative being in human form would add a new volume to some slope or tower of the monstrous omni-patulent mass, or some sharp-glancing youth, with teeth set unevenly on edge, would pull out a volume, look greedily and half-believingly for a few moments, return it, and slink away.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 83, September, 1864
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Shopping for an end of world vehicle, but don't want a big honkin 'V8 that greedily suck down the last of the go-juice you can scrounge?
Ride Lust - Motion + Mobility
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I am now at 6,000 ft, so my lungs pump that pure air greedily and I am thrilled to find early-flowering edelweiss in the far-as-the-eye-can-see wild-flower pastures.
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This is the so-called contestable markets theory, pioneered by economist William Baumol, which suggests that even if one firm dominates an industry, it still must behave as if it had competition, because if its acts greedily in hiking prices and profits—it soon will.6 And firms even collaborate with competitors, legally, by making their products sufficiently different from others to build separate markets, customer loyalty, and demand, to diminish competition.
Executive Economics
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They were served lamb and rosemary and she surprised herself by eating greedily.
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The vultures eat greedily, fighting over scraps, slipping off the rock in their haste to consume.
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Tossing the pills into the basket, I heard crunching noises as the creature inside greedily wolfed them down.
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He sat down, opened it up and began shoveling the food in greedily.
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The purple girl, now in black, stood by the fence smoking greedily.
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I pulled the ring - top from the can and drank greedily.
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We both felt full, but not as heavy and bloated as after a meat-filled meal, so desserts were greedily ordered.
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I greedily took the cup from whosever's hands and gulped down the water.
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Once Soothesong passes, he continues his reconnoiter, breathing in the tempting fumes of meat broth greedily.
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She watched as the gray mantled gull swooped down and greedily ate the smashed contents of the shattered clamshell.
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The dark and gentle haze of the night, greedily devours all.
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One was gobbled up immediately, the other sat in my freezer until I defrosted it and gobbled it up just as greedily.
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We would probably unearth the trio, only to find them linked to our eternal horror in a macabre, cannibalistic wheel — Limbaugh greedily gagging on Robertson's legs, Robertson, beatifically goitered on Beck's body up to the hip, and Beck, eyes a 'tearing from gorging on ol' Rush past even that fabled pilonidal cyst, their animal hunger winning out over humanity after but a day's worry.
Like Hell Needs A Heat Wave...
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The air sizzled as oxygen was greedily consumed by the roiling ball of fire.
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For the true aficionado, a beer is a special type of travel souvenir, to be greedily consumed and tucked away with all its heady memories.
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The hog, that finds his food among ordure, and greedily devours many things rejected by every other useful animal, is, like poultry, originally kept as a save-all.
XI. Book I. Of the Rent of Land
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Nothing reveals the decadence of the regime more than the revelation that, deprived of fresh water, the inmates of the bunker were forced to wash in the champagne that their leaders had greedily stockpiled.
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Now that they'd disconnected all supply umbilical lines, the showers were on full recycle setting, offering only a hard, thin spray that was greedily sucked back up through the drains in both floor and walls.
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It is the raving of some wretched Jew, who wrote those infamous and revolting fooleries, in imitation of the tales so greedily swallowed by the neighboring population in Syria.
A Philosophical Dictionary
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They were served lamb and rosemary and she surprised herself by eating greedily.
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Eagerly I slit open the carton, greedily I inspect all my new treasures and line them up on the sunroom floor to see what all arrived.
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In his youth he greedily fills his soul with everything he can lay his hands on and at the age of thirty all that remains of it is a kind of grayish rubbish.
Personal Recollections of Anton Pavlovitch Chekhov
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Saba's eyes shone like stones of black jet as he greedily reached for the beer, downing it in one gulp.
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Each time I brought a heaped spoonful to his mouth, he would greedily suck it all in.
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I wheel a shopping cart down the aisles of the neighborhood Grand Union, and he follows, swiftly, greedily.
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The infant suckled greedily and Dara's eyes misted in happiness.
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Observation would soon show them that fish fed greedily on each other and on other inhabitants of the water or living things that fell into it, and so, no doubt, arose the idea of entangling the prey by means of its appetite.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1
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Joachim cleaned my face, wiping dirt from the bruises whilst I greedily gulped the thick red claret.
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When he does do something like greedily grab onto a bottle of milk with his mouth, it's an event worth getting all worked up about because it shows a glimmer of him being a wee person instead of a wriggling blob that poos.
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She recovered all the parts of the body excepting one only, which the oxyrhynchus had greedily devoured; [*] and with the help of her sister Nephthys, her son Horus, Anubis, and Thot, she joined together and embalmed them, and made of this collection of his remains an imperishable mummy, capable of sustaining for ever the soul of a god.
History Of Egypt, Chaldæa, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, Volume 1 (of 12)
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I'm there often, greedily pawing their goods, and adding things constantly to my wish list.
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The hungry man greedily shovelled the food into his mouth.
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We welcomed the range of foreign foods on offer, devouring pizza, curry and Thai greedily.
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Food is just about my only remaining pleasure up here, and so I dive greedily into vast platefuls of the stuff.
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Even competitive ping-pong has fencelessness going for it, and you don't see them greedily filling baseball stadiums.
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Elsa and I greedily drank from the stream while Rowen sat on a bank, and skipped stones across the water.
