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.

  • After a bout of jealous banter, the doctor declares a smug faith in his wife's fidelity, whereupon Alice--who has been smoking dope and quietly simmering--wallops him with the news that she once came this close to abandoning him and the couple's daughter for a soldier she locked eyes with at a resort hotel.

  • When Tom begins an affair with Rose, the actress who plays the hamburger girl becomes jealous.

  • Everyone else in Hollywood was flabbergasted and jealous, while the media dwelled on fears that a cultural treasure was being gobbled up.

  • I don't think they're jealous.


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