Example sentences for: jealous

How can you use “jealous” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Eons of evolution through sexual selection have made the average man or woman insanely jealous of any interloper who gains a reproductive advantage--say by diddling your spouse.

  • This romance will ultimately bring grief, because you will come to feel jealous and betrayed.

  • ("You saved the town beauty from drowning and made yourself deaf in one ear so that you couldn't be a New York cop, and then she married some other guy--you have a right to be jealous!"

  • Anand Tucker's film is often unflattering to the late musician, and some reviewers mark it as the work of a jealous sibling out to tarnish her sister's hallowed image.

  • The first reminds me of “I the Lord thy God am a jealous God,” and the second is not as far-fetched as it seems.


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