Example sentences for: jealousy

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

  • The Fourth Crusade, launched in 1202 and partly inspired by Venetian jealousy of Byzantium’s trading power, became an excuse to plunder Constantinople itself.

  • Gordon may be on to something with the issue of sexual jealousy, but neglects the key difference: Budd is lusted after; Clinton lusts.

  • As for the episode in which Lewinsky exploded in jealousy over Clinton's meeting with journalist Eleanor Mondale, Lewinsky explains, "I don't know that people can understand ...

  • A person may give another the evil eye because of a feeling of jealousy or covetousness.

  • 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.


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