Example Sentences

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Jealously guarding their intimacy after their painful months apart, it was just the two of them, without friends and family.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 26, 2022

Jealously takes place of the love,and sometimes,this goes to nadir,by harming the interests of sibling - either financially,or emotionally.

From New York Times • Nov. 27, 2017

Jealously protective of his anonymity, he offered only that he is between 25 and 35 years old and comes from a middle-class background.

From New York Times • Aug. 23, 2012

Jealously guarded by His Majesty's Office of Works is an undated agglomeration of huge monoliths standing in two great concentric circles, two horseshoes and other scattered positions on a rolling hilltop in Salisbury Plain.

From Time Magazine Archive

Jealously the boy stood guard while his tiny sister had her first real meal.

From Atlantic Narratives Modern Short Stories by Ashe, Elizabeth