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Greed
"Greed" in a Sentence (18 examples)
Although he had many toys, his greed made him want more.
His greed for power knows no bounds.
His honor was corroded by greed.
He let his greed get the better of him.
Greed seems to have blinded his good judgement.
His greed brought him low.
The earth can satisfy our needs but not our greed.
Greed keeps men forever poor; even the abundance of this world will not make them rich.
Greed is good.
I was overtaken by greed.
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His greed was his undoing.
[…]But when I had bestridden the plank, quoth I to myself, "Thou deserveth all that betideth thee. All this is decreed to me of Allah (whose name be exalted!), to turn me from my greed of gain, whence ariseth all that I endure, for I have wealth galore."
Your market gardener is not a well-breeched man, dependant as he is on the imponderables of glut, the inequities of distribution, and the greeds of wholesaler and retailer.
She does not display voracities and greeds like a number of patients […] nor has she shown any significant tendency to possessiveness, grievance, paranoia, or mania.
The point is, ladies and gentleman, that greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right, greed works. Greed clarifies, cuts through, and captures the essence of the evolutionary spirit. Greed, in all of its forms; greed for life, for money, for love, knowledge has marked the upward surge of mankind.
The ravens sit greeding, / And watching, and heeding: / Thoro' wind, over water, / Comes scent of the slaughter, / And ravens sit greeding / Their share of the bones.
Hearing these words he arose, because indeed he greeded for her, and came up behind her as she rested upon her elbows and knees and bending in hand his prickle nailed it into her coynte and did manly devoir.
This conniving bastard has greeded the farm off an old man and I end up with nothing.
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