covet
Example Sentences
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That has allowed the show to meet younger people where they are and to stay relevant with viewers in the 18-to-34 age bracket that advertisers covet.
From MarketWatch • May 7, 2026
But Guardiola has often seemed to covet the Champions League above all else and there will likely be frustration that the competition has brought him more anguish than joy in the past 10 years.
From BBC • Mar. 17, 2026
The temperature was cool most of the year, without frost or heat, an environment that allows grapes to grow in abundance—and slowly develop the concentrated flavors that wine drinkers covet.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 11, 2025
Someone who, perhaps, did not covet the presidency as much as he did.
From Slate • Oct. 10, 2025
The matches are wooden ones, in a cardboard sliding-top box, the kind I used to covet in order to make dolls’ drawers out of them.
From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood
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