Sentence examples for Greedy from inspiring English sources

We were caterpillars, greedy worms condemned to toil on earth; the chrysalis was our coffin, but the butterfly's miraculous emergence symbolised the possibility of an afterlife, a chance for our souls to ascend to heaven.

All of these social groups will point out that the recession was caused in part by greedy developers who overheated the property market and hence the entire economy thanks also to loans from their chums in the main Irish banks.

Such killers may speak as if they are acting piously under the eye of an all-powerful God, but they actually act with a sharp, greedy eye for their audience of human peers.

We spent a blissful, greedy day winding in and out of many of the area's finest, sharing just the one plate of tacos or dividing a burrito (still a mammoth meal) in each.

We can see here that the invisible hand is bound, can greedy doctors really be blamed for the spiralling costs?

The greedy, selfish "development" has worsened, instead of alleviating, its two biggest headaches: housing and traffic.

However, in the late 1970s a few of us got greedy; the rest of us failed to stop the greedy, and they spread their ideas around (if not their money).

The hero is a stupid greedy little bear, and the clever animals are ridiculous: good old England, I sometimes think, at it again.

I am so frustrated at the way greedy bigger football clubs gobble up players that have been signed up, and then carefully nurtured over the months and years, by teams like my own Dundee United.

Unlike most French parks, there is a distinct lack of Gallic order here; in fact, with lakes, open spaces, and its greedy and inquisitive ducks, you could very easily be in a park in any British city.

Liverpool's England international Raheem Sterling was recently labelled greedy after asking for £100,000 a week wages (though some Premier League players get paid far more), and lambasted for inhaling laughing gas, or "hippy crack" as some newspapers referred to it.