Example sentences for: jealous

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

  • 2) Yeltsin was jealous because Primakov was succeeding.

  • In 1745 Governor Clinton wrote to the Board of Trade, “That as they [the New York Assembly] are jealous of the power of the Crown, and are Levellers by principle, nothing but an independent Govr.

  • 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.

  • To be jealous of a person is to be open to another's influence, to have one's sense of self continuously challenged by another.

  • The sky isn't always sunny: Wolf gets groped by a menacing stranger, and a jealous boyfriend hits her.


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