covet

Example Sentences

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But Guardiola has often seemed to covet the Champions League above all else and there will likely be frustration that the competition has brought him more anguish than joy in the past 10 years.

From BBC • Mar. 17, 2026

Teens who covet a world just before the explosion of smartphones are doing the same thing.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 28, 2025

Someone who, perhaps, did not covet the presidency as much as he did.

From Slate • Oct. 10, 2025

The AI minds that companies truly covet are almost as rare as professional athletes.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 2, 2025

The matches are wooden ones, in a cardboard sliding-top box, the kind I used to covet in order to make dolls’ drawers out of them.

From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood