Example sentences for: avarice

How can you use “avarice” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • But when it comes to avarice, Pooh has a native intelligence.

  • The Old English word for cupiditas is gitsung avarice, greed, a word not easily confused with feoh cattle; property; money.

  • Scholars will investigate a range of subjects including techno music and globalization, avarice in the late middle ages and Renaissance, and African-Americans and foreign affairs.

  • After all, it's heads you become wealthy beyond the dreams of avarice, tails you get some bad press (and lose the money you yourself put in--but when you are allowed to make a trillion-dollar gamble with only $2.

  • The ambition of the conductor is abetted by the avarice of the agent, who receives a commission of up to 20 percent on the fees and salaries he negotiates.


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