How to Use avarice in a Sentence

avarice

noun

• The corporate world is plagued by avarice and a thirst for power.
• He was driven by avarice.
• At its core, the show remains a portrait of intergenerational continuity, of avarice bridging gaps of age and sensibility.
  — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 9 Aug. 2024
• Or: Here is a way to become rich beyond the dreams of avarice.
  — Zoë Heller, The New Yorker, 5 July 2021
• After all, the Church taught that avarice was one of the Seven Deadly Sins.
  — Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 5 Mar. 2021
• But to Luther the monasteries were hotbeds of avarice and pride.
  — Joseph Loconte, WSJ, 26 Oct. 2017
• The gala heist may have been an adventure in avarice, but the framing capped it with style.
  — Hannah Giorgis, The Atlantic, 12 June 2018
• Huey Long would've wept at the level of ambition present in their avarice.
  — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 14 Dec. 2011
• Our nerves are sinews, our tears and blood have been sacrificed on the altar of this nation’s avarice.
  — Cynthia Greenlee, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Feb. 2024
• The company’s many critics see it as the pinnacle of avarice.
  — Lawrence Wright, The New Yorker, 28 Dec. 2020
• The gesture felt defensive, as a virtuous fig leaf on the fair’s naked avarice.
  — Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker, 17 May 2021
• There is no king to protect you, no House of Lords to temper the majority’s greed or avarice.
  — Jay Cost, National Review, 21 Mar. 2021
• The problem wasn’t merely that of empire meeting avarice.
  — Tunku Varadarajan, WSJ, 4 June 2021
• The baddie in this scenario is entirely of our own making: avarice and urban sprawl come to bite us in the ass.
  — Hazlitt, 19 June 2024
• Greed always has been there, but its cocktail of avarice liquor and bitters has been poured too strong and now goes down hard and ugly.
  — Nick Canepa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Jan. 2024
• But the once-benevolent king appears to have succumbed to avarice and begun meddling with the book of creation.
  — Edwin Evans-Thirlwell, Washington Post, 19 Jan. 2023
• Here's a look at some of the first wives whose avarice and hunger for power came to define them and by extension their husbands in power.
  — Fox News, 22 June 2018
• Here’s a look at some of the first wives whose avarice and hunger for power came to define them and by extension their husbands in power.
  — Washington Post, 21 June 2018
• The avarice of the artist can be terrible, and terribly sustaining.
  — Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 17 Sep. 2019
• The body count in this baroque tale of avarice and corruption in contemporary India is high: five migrants are dead by the end of the first sentence.
  — Condé Nast, The New Yorker, 13 Mar. 2023
• The poison apples don't fall far from the tree, and one by one Roderick's adult children destroy themselves in the name of avarice and glory.
  — Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 9 Oct. 2023
• As the King of Deception, his ulterior intent has to be hidden in greed and avarice.
  — Bob Larsen, SPIN, 12 Feb. 2022
• What is sure, is, that as soon as the penny rattles in the chest, gain and avarice are on the way of increase; but the intercession of the church depends only on the will of God Himself.
  — Kristin E. Holmes, Philly.com, 27 Oct. 2017
• But the basis of today’s financial markets seems to be unchecked avarice devoid of oversight.
  — The New Yorker, 4 May 2020
• Much of that corruption has been driven by the common temptations of avarice and power.
  — James M. Banner Jr., Time, 22 July 2019
• The engineer’s downfall is a saga of avarice and betrayal that left all involved looking bad.
  — Joel Rosenblatt, Fortune, 4 Aug. 2020
• The entire collection was inspired by Dante's Inferno, where the leopard, the lion, and the she-wolf serve as allegories for lust, pride, and avarice.
  — Tara Gonzalez, Harper's BAZAAR, 23 Jan. 2023
• This is no longer a time for avarice or sloth or inactiveness or ineptitude.
  — Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 28 Feb. 2022
• To be sure, plenty of this acquisitiveness comes from a love of gaming, not from unthinking avarice.
  — Cecilia D'anastasio, Wired, 24 Oct. 2020
• Ambition, avarice, personal animosity, party opposition, and many other motives not more laudable than these, are apt to operate as well upon those who support as those who oppose the right side of a question.
  — Liz Tracey, JSTOR Daily, 30 May 2024

Last Updated: 17 Dec 2024