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Example sentences for: covets

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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.
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.