Example Sentences

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Meanwhile, I was coveting her fun and freewheeling life and thought she was the artistic version of me that “didn’t sell out.”

From Slate • May 29, 2019

I figured he’d choose the big ones—like her secretly saving up for three years in a row to buy him that expensive plane saw he was coveting over at Sears.

From "Missing May" by Cynthia Rylant

How often have I not read in the lines of her forehead that she was coveting for Fernand the honors and the wealth of Felipe!

From Letters of Two Brides by Balzac, Honoré de

He watched these toilers with a vague feeling of envy; he dragged the feeling to the light and found that he was coveting the day's work just passed.

From Stanford Stories Tales of a Young University by Field, Charles K. (Charles Kellogg)

Instead of enjoying the summer she had, she was coveting all the summers between her and eternity.

From Wit, Humor, Reason, Rhetoric, Prose, Poetry and Story Woven into Eight Popular Lectures by Bain, George W.