Sample Sentences for
glutton
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    When nobody eats the last chile on the plate, it's usually because none of them wants to look like a glutton, so even though they'd really like to devour it, they don't have the nerve to take it.  (source)
    glutton = a person who regularly eats to excess
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    What is the meaning of all this gluttony, this waste, this self-indulgence?  (source)
    gluttony = eating or drinking to excess
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    "Gluttons for punishment, are they?" the judge chuckled before continuing.  (source)
    Gluttons = people who persist in some activity despite harmful or unpleasant consequences
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    If it were eating it would be the gluttony of the famished; if it were sex it would be a swift furtive stand-up in an alley somewhere.†  (source)
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    And that one, the fat one, the glutton, the bomber, the mutilator of innocent children.†  (source)
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    Behind her they heard the gloop gloop of the bubbling, glutinous potion.†  (source)
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    The gluttonous seagulls had brazenly eaten chunks torn from his chest and were now on to something else—a herring or a clam.  (source)
    gluttonous = regularly eating to excess
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    They don't want to look like gluttons.  (source)
    gluttons = people who regularly eat or drink to excess
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    He hadn't even asked them not to rob him—which they had already done, gluttonously, and without a shred of remorse.†  (source)
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    For the most glutinously indefinite minds enclose some hard grains of habit; and a man has been seen lax about all his own interests except the retention of his snuff-box, concerning which he was watchful, suspicious, and greedy of clutch.†  (source)
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    wist a man how many maladies Follow of excess and of gluttonies, He woulde be the more measurable* *moderate Of his diete, sitting at his table.†  (source)
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    My vote is still with gluttony.†  (source)
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    She wasn't a glutton, and it's not like we had anything to overeat anyway.†  (source)
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