Example sentences for: jealousy

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

  • No--try jealousy.

  • Eris, as Graves writes, "is always stirring up occasions for war by the spread of rumour and the inculcation of jealousy."

  • Fiennes is superb at jealousy, and even better when he has to fulminate at something so intangible and yet (to Greene) so irrefutable as the existence of God.

  • As for your ruminations on the effects of competitive jealousy on news judgment, I'd have to agree that there's something out of whack if a story like the Paducah, Kentucky, bomb factory goes so wildly under-reported in other papers, just because the Post broke it.

  • Consider Diana, the baby sitter to the Sloane Ranger crowd who apparently threw daily temper tantrums from the moment she entered the royal palace, who developed a pathological jealousy of her husband's ex-girlfriend that may have driven him back into her arms.


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