Immoderately desirous of acquiring e.g. wealth.
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Examples for "grasping"
Examples for "grasping"
1The man was openly exultant; he stood for Demos grasping the sceptre.
2The act of Fred Linden in grasping the limb saved his life.
3The wild blood in her leaped at the thought of grasping happiness.
4This will teach thee caution in judgment and accuracy in grasping subjects.
5The players form in a circle, grasping the hands of their neighbors.
1Superefficient engines that were kept off the market by greedy energy companies.
2However, when we paid piles of peanuts, we simply got greedy monkeys.
3A greedy algorithm approach was used to conduct the propensity score match.
4There was one of her family in particular that was especially greedy.
5Simple in his tastes, and yet very vain and greedy of applause.
1The major powers are covetous of top jobs at the United Nations.
2The covetous prodigal is of all others the worst man in society.
3It is a covetous grasping, a recognition that the other is indispensable.
4In all this there is nothing of a self-seeking or covetous kind.
5The duty not to contrive through a covetous heart to despoil another.
1Greed, sometimes sat in the councils, and the avaricious bent the rules.
2Though avaricious, it was in order to spend and not to hoard.
3But they are avaricious and envious, Tomas; and Mammon hath corrupted them.
4An avaricious smile of satisfaction drew down the corners of his lips.
5He was avaricious, but avarice was the great sin of his times.
1The prehensile way the long feet controlled the motion of the swing.
2Not all the monkeys of America possess this prehensile power of tail.
3Strange-seehow small it is-andbroad, how prehensile the toes-almost like fingers.
4All prehensile-tailed monkeys are American, but all American monkeys are not prehensile-tailed.
5The seahorses wrapped their prehensile tails around our fingers and hung on.
1I mean, what if you get all grabby and whiney on me?
2VW's seven-speed dual-clutch automatic is fluid at cruising speed but grabby when parking.
3Pity the story isn't quite as grabby as the head, though.
4While you might not be grabby, it's certainly no challenge to trip you either.
5The band opened with three from the new record, but none was particularly grabby.
6I told you how I feel about your working with some grabby old fart.
7But in all honesty, I was just a horny little teenager with grabby hands.
8Now I know about balancing on heels and fending off drunk ministers with grabby hands.
9The ceramic brakes are grabby in city traffic.
10It's a sweet car on the road but a grabby dual-clutch auto feels awkward when parking.
11The wind pulled at them with grabby fingers, threatening to spin the pair into the night.
12Sarah was mighty grabby, though, wasn't she, Milly?
13I had learned to step away from grabby hands and to lean away when setting down drinks.
14I like this material, except that it gets grabby when you're wearing long sleeves or a jacket.
15It'll keep him from getting grabby.
16Or they get amorous and grabby.