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How to use covet in a sentence

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Decent people don't covet material possessions in times of crisis and extreme suffering.
This is where the old money lives, where the nouveau riche covet, and where anyone who's anyone among the upper crust loves to gossip about.
I'm hoping, however, that it's less of a sin to covet thy neighbor's minivan.
They covet its 8,000 objects as old friends and talk about them with familiar candour.
He has encouraged his players to covet the ball, to pass it short and often.
This terrifying vision fits perfectly well with the desire for honour and glory that the neo-conservative gentlemen covet.
Logically, all OEMs covet a piece of the prestige markets as that is where the money flows in great quantities.
He dismissed talk of a feud with Brown, who is reported to covet the premiership.
Various characters, good and bad, from high life and low, covet and become corrupted by the golden coin.
I think it would make for a gentle irony if the two of them were to covet the two top jobs at the one time.
They have no legal liability for what happens in Chinese factories that covet its manufacturing business.
Don't kill, don't steal, don't bear false witness, and don't covet your neighbor's wife.
One brief, unmitigated disaster later, Rangers were returning to the man who self-evidently could not win the trophy they most covet.
Both must also covet Transneft, which owns Russia's pipeline network, and may be sold later.
We covet your prayers as we confront every satanic influence that has bound the people of this land.
It's no surprise that early and growthstage companies covet the opportunity to present at the conference.
When countries covet territory claimed by others, governments will often turn to their mapmakers for help in moving boundaries.
When we envy another and covet what he or she has, we may again be indulging in false assumptions and exaggeration.
He could not have known covetousness unless the Law said, You shall not covet.
Mothers-to-be covet it like a Birkin bag, and celebrity moms are known to splurge on it.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Hardly in Wythburn was there any one so poor as to covet such shelter for a home.
At her disposal was wealth without stint, every luxury the soft could desire, every gewgaw the vain could covet.
There is nothing I should better like to hear, since of all titles this is the one I covet most the right to bear.
Because they covet you as a drawing card to disdaining shoppers.
The one with the Chippendale stuff you used to covet so much.
It is not my intention to be fulsome, but I confess that I covet your skull.
Sir Alastair had a son, and the McKenzie heritage was nothing to covet.
This is something to covet, and, when found, not to be lost sight of.
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