covetin a sentence
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The company makes knockoffs for people who covet designer fashions, but can't afford them.covet = strongly desire
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He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it - namely, that in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to obtain. (source)
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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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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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the recipient of a fabulously coveted research grant. (source)coveted = strongly desired
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And I have coveted other people's goods. (source)coveted = strongly wanted
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There used to be great friendship between them and the people of Thror; and they often brought us secret news, and were rewarded with such bright things as they coveted to hide in their dwellings. (source)coveted = strongly wanted
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I covet no man's soul, (source)covet = want
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He had seen them on the kingsroad, troupes of mothers and children and anxious fathers who had gazed on his horses and wagons with covetous eyes.† (source)
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It was tightly closed, but I opened it, to find to my puzzlement and covetousness two polished buffalo nickels, embedded in white cotton.† (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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Why do you think she hangs around, covets a relationship with my new wife?† (source)covets = strongly wants
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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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Therefore with thy prayer Sometime assist me: and by that I crave, Which most thou covetest, that if thy feet E'er tread on Tuscan soil, thou save my fame Amongst my kindred.† (source)covetest = strongly wantstandard suffix: Today, the suffix "-est" is dropped, so that where they said "Thou covetest" in older English, today we say "You covet."
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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)uncoveted = not wantedstandard 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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