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