Sample Sentences for
covet
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    And now, they were hers, but the tresses that should have adorned the coveted adornments were gone.  (source)
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    Of course no one in Olinka owns a bicycle, but one of the roadbuilders has one, and all the Olinka men covet it and talk of someday soon purchasing their own.  (source)
    covet = strongly desire
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    I covet no man's soul,  (source)
    covet = want
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    And I have coveted other people's goods.  (source)
    coveted = strongly wanted
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    Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's goods, nor make unto thee any graven image.†  (source)
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    Conversely....Charles Halloway turned a page....did the scurrying freaks, the Illustrated Marvel, bear the foreheads of the Irascible, the Cruel, the Covetous, the mouths of the Lewd and Untruthful?†  (source)
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    There were Covetousness of Will's money, Treason toward his mother's God, Theft of time and hope, sick Rejection of love.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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    as if coveting something that didn't belong to him.  (source)
    coveting = strongly wanting
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    We can understand Prusias's greed and lust for power—we know what he covets, and this makes him far less terrifying than one so alien as Astaroth.†  (source)
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    21:26 He coveteth greedily all the day long: but the righteous giveth and spareth not.†  (source)
    standard suffix: Today, the suffix "-eth" is replaced by "-s", so that where they said "She coveteth" in older English, today we say "She covets."
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    He would peek into the bag every now and then, and he would roll his eyes and swivel his scrawny neck, trying to catch people looking covetously at his bag.†  (source)
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    The lone man and his sun-toughened wife who cling to the shade in an unfruitful and uncoveted place might, with their brothers in arms—the coyote, the jackrabbit, the horned toad, the rattlesnake, together with a host of armored insects—these trained and tested fragments of life might well be the last hope of life against non-life.†  (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in uncoveted means not and reverses the meaning of coveted. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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    stung again by the denial of a man whose love, almost inexplicably, he still coveted, a man ignoring him, even in heaven.  (source)
    coveted = strongly wanted
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