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Example sentences for: covets

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If a person covets or is envious of a child he or she may give that child the evil eye.
Chris Patten's memoirs could prevent a Murdoch takeover of the Wall Street Journal . Murdoch covets the newspaper, but Journal readers would not tolerate it in the hands of a man who is so willing to suppress news for financial gain.
It should be noted of the library's treatments of Mark Twain and Henry James, which Kerr covets for Gertrude Stein, that their thinnest volumes comprise 1,029 and 845 pages, respectively.