Sentence examples for avariciously from inspiring English sources

Beginning with the disorders of the Commune in 1871, it was allocated to the Ministry of Finance, which avariciously held on to it, in our time coarsely using it as its National Lottery offices.

The M.L.S. transfer window swings open on July 15 (when Torsten Frings and Danny Koevermans can start playing for Toronto), and some European teams have reportedly been circling avariciously around the Red Bulls' two budding young American players, Juan Agudelo and Tim Ream.

Brown was, among other things, part traditional southern gent, part bootstrapped American dreamer, part avariciously cold-blooded capitalist and part Afro-conscious black radical.

At this time I was an avariciously hopeful would-be cartoonist of 12 or 13 and Steinberg a 31-year-old Romanian Jew whose long American sojourn had begun but four years before.

Bilbo and his boys have found the evil dragon Smaug, who's lolloped avariciously over their treasure.

Ms. Steenburgen's Gayle, a recovering alcoholic who speaks fluent Spanish, attends a local 12-step meeting, and Ms. Taylor's Leslie, a hard-headed single New Yorker who works in publishing, rebuffs a macho teenage beach boy, one of many idle Latino men avariciously buzzing around the visitors.

(We also recommend that new flu cases in New York be put under quarantine in the sections of Yankee Stadium that the team avariciously tried to sell for $2,500 a seat per game. You can sit in splendid isolation there).

The Ming period (1368-1644), theydayday of rock mania, was an avariciously consumerist age like our own.