How to use "greed" in sentences with meaning in English and Hindi

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Example sentences for "greed" in popular movie and book plots

  • Sensing Voyager's greed for power, Canaan tricked him into attempting to link with Wilhelm's Compass of Order and Chaos.  - Xenosaga Episode III
  • Tao, after seeing the greed and brothels in San Francisco, loses most of his faith in America.  - Daughter of Fortune
  • The story of the film is one of greed and family hatred.  - Undertow (2004 film)
  • Her obsession grows, arousing envy and greed with mysterious, nightmarish visions.  - The Red Shoes (2005 film)
  • Tensions fill the air as passions rise in the wake of greed and jealousy for both the fortune and Laura.  - Wet Gold
  • The first berry makes her tail exactly like Lolla Lee Lou's, but greed overtakes her.  - Yertle the Turtle and Other Stories
  • The story of a hero battling against corruption and greed echoes the cattle baron or railroad Westerns.  - At Home Among Strangers
  • He shares the greed for the family fortune.  - Beta (film)
  • The main action of the story takes place in Washington,C, and satirizes the greed and corruption of the governing class.  - The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today
  • 2 How Pilon was lured by greed of position to forsake Danny's hospitality.  - Tortilla Flat
  • The greed was so evident, Kravis's final bid is declared the winner, even though Johnson's was higher.  - Barbarians at the Gate (film)
  • However, his greed to get the emeralds at any cost soon creates trouble.  - Green Fire
  • As Rohanda degenerates into greed and conflict, the Canopeans reluctantly change its name to Shikasta (the stricken).  - Shikasta
  • Furthermore, he fantasizes that there is a nuclear war on the horizon as a result of American greed and crime.  - The Mosquito Coast
  • Financial problems lure him and Jehangir towards greed and money.  - Family Matters (novel)
  • On the trail to Abilene, Vandergroat attempts to turn his captors against each other, using greed as his weapon.  - The Naked Spur

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