Greedily is an English word. Below you'll find 9 example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Greedily meaning
In a greedy manner; with keen or ardent desire.
Synonyms of Greedily
Using Greedily
- The main meaning on this page is: In a greedy manner; with keen or ardent desire.
- Useful related words include: avariciously, covetously.
Context around Greedily
- Average sentence length in these examples: 25.7 words
- Position in the sentence: 0 start, 3 middle, 6 end
- Sentence types: 9 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Greedily
- In this selection, "greedily" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 25.7 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, smothered, husband, ate, hanging, enables and eating stand out and add context to how "greedily" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include aircraft after greedily overloading it and and smothered greedily in whipped. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "greedily" sits close to words such as aargau, abacos and abboud, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with greedily
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Pilot who crashed his aircraft after greedily overloading it. (9 words)
Victor, 15:7 He ate Alpine cheese at dinner quite greedily. (11 words)
After wolfing down a sourdough bread infused with a Marmitey punch, and smothered greedily in whipped butter, we move onto the mains. (22 words)
Chapungu — the main character played by Lorraine Mushati — is a woman, who following the death of her husband, greedily fights to grab the family wealth instead of letting it go to the younger sister-in-law Chido (Eunice Tava). (39 words)
The inspiration, she said, came from her father’s erstwhile business selling caviar from Moldova and Russia during her childhood, when she recalled sneaking it from the refrigerator and greedily eating it with her hands. (35 words)
Our characters this time are desperate youth — a group of twentysomething future laborers caught in the exploitative employ of Weyland-Yutani, the evil corporation that greedily enables the gnashing in every movie. (32 words)
Example sentences (9)
His real enemies are those who portray him as greedily hanging on to the reins of government at the detriment of his personal health.
Our characters this time are desperate youth — a group of twentysomething future laborers caught in the exploitative employ of Weyland-Yutani, the evil corporation that greedily enables the gnashing in every movie.
The inspiration, she said, came from her father’s erstwhile business selling caviar from Moldova and Russia during her childhood, when she recalled sneaking it from the refrigerator and greedily eating it with her hands.
After wolfing down a sourdough bread infused with a Marmitey punch, and smothered greedily in whipped butter, we move onto the mains.
Chapungu — the main character played by Lorraine Mushati — is a woman, who following the death of her husband, greedily fights to grab the family wealth instead of letting it go to the younger sister-in-law Chido (Eunice Tava).
Pilot who crashed his aircraft after greedily overloading it.
If the chickens stayed in their cage, made noises ("occinerent"), beat their wings or flew away, the omen was bad; if they ate greedily, the omen was good.
Other examples include Surs. schuber 'clean' from Swiss German suuber, Surs. schumber 'drum' from Swiss German or Middle High German sumber, and Surs. schufar 'to drink greedily' from Swiss German suufe.
Victor, 15:7 He ate Alpine cheese at dinner quite greedily.