How to Use greed in a Sentence

greed

noun

• He was a ruthless businessman, motivated by naked ambition and greed.
• The guns, the greed, the homelessness, the mental illness.
  — Shawn Hubler, New York Times, 14 Dec. 2023
• Vengeance, greed, and blood soak the pages but so do love, loss, and a lot of regret.
  — Sean Woods, Rolling Stone, 2 Apr. 2024
• Rage can be righteous; lust can be thrilling; greed gets you all the good toys.
  — Jennifer Senior, The Atlantic, 9 Feb. 2022
• That’s one of the most iconic movie characters of the ’80s — the guy who told us greed is good.
  — Matt Brennan, Los Angeles Times, 20 Mar. 2022
• His head was cut down on to the sand, his mouth filled with molten gold to mark the greed that all the Parthians knew him for.
  — Peter Stothard, Time, 21 Dec. 2022
• Because of greed, the treasure remains on the sea floor.
  — Big Think, 24 June 2024
• Groff makes clear that Frank’s is a tragedy of weakness, not simply of greed.
  — Sara Holdren, Vulture, 10 Oct. 2023
• They are redeemed not from the sin of witchcraft, but rather from their own greed and pride.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 7 Oct. 2022
• And for the love of all that is holy, this has nothing to do with corporate greed.
  — The Editors, National Review, 11 Mar. 2022
• Groff makes clear that Frank’s is a tragedy of weakness, not simply of greed.
  — Sara Holdren, Vulture, 16 June 2024
• In the short run, supply and demand depend on the balance of fear and greed.
  — James MacKintosh, WSJ, 29 Nov. 2022
• Her crimes caught up with her, and her greed — not just for Sweeney but her greed for money.
  — Thomas Floyd, Washington Post, 6 Apr. 2024
• There was good and bad, arrogance and greed, on both sides.
  — Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 2 Dec. 2022
• This sham of a lockout can be explained by one word: greed.
  — Los Angeles Times, 8 Mar. 2022
• As the moon and Mars clash, distinguish between need and greed.
  — USA TODAY, 14 Mar. 2024
• Where do pride and greed fall on the hierarchy of needs?
  — Erik Kain, Forbes, 28 Mar. 2022
• What the show demonstrates is that greed makes people act a certain way.
  — Adrienne Gaffney, Town & Country, 7 Jan. 2023
• Mattei said Jones knew his claims to be false, but broadcast them out of greed.
  — Edmund H. Mahony, Hartford Courant, 13 Sep. 2022
• This worked well in America until the last 100 years of greed.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 5 Aug. 2022
• Nothing was to the nineties what freedom was to the sixties, malaise to the seventies, greed and speed to the eighties.
  — Frank Guan, The New Yorker, 31 Jan. 2022
• The fabric of baseball in all its glory is being buried by the owners in the name of greed.
  — Los Angeles Times, 8 Mar. 2022
• His Ernest is a jut-jawed, not very bright man irreparably torn by greed.
  — Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 19 Oct. 2023
• These were breed, dryer, freed, freer, greed and gruel.
  — Erik Kain, Forbes, 16 Aug. 2022
• The attorneys for the trio argued that poverty, not greed, was what drove their clients.
  — Alex Riggins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Nov. 2023
• The celebration of the harvest and gratitude has been pushed aside in the name of greed.
  — Chicago Tribune, 28 Nov. 2024
• This is a story about greed, notes the team, which leads to schemes, deception, conflicts and death.
  — Marta Balaga, Variety, 17 July 2023
• Their greed helped stunt a society that has been left in the dust by nations of people free to learn and think and build.
  — jsonline.com, 30 Aug. 2021
• In the wake of the arrest, many social media users have cast Mangione as a martyr against corporate greed or used the shooting to criticize the health insurance industry.
  — Sara Dorn, Forbes, 15 Dec. 2024
• During the interview, Biden went after corporate greed.
  — Cheyenne Haslett, ABC News, 17 Dec. 2024

Last Updated: 6 Jan 2025