If thou bee wise, as wise thou art, and wilt be ruld by me, Liue still at home, and couet not those barbarous coasts to see.
For suerlie this rule is infallible, that as ill men dailie couet to destroie the good; so God appointeth the good men to confound the ill.
I heare that our desertes and voide places, be mocked by the Greeke prouerbes, we couet rather those desertes and places vnhabited, then cities and plentifull soyles.
In like maner the beautifull doe not councell men to loue them, or couet that is not lawful: But miserable men shewing themselues inferiour to all lustes and desires, doe in the ende accuse Loue to be the authour of their miserie.
For in change of the two aforesaid commodities all the nations bordering round about them couet to trafficke with them, and so they without any trauell or expences haue that which they desire.
All that I need I haue; what needeth mee 4 To couet more, then I haue cause to vse?
I am rapt, and cannot couet The monstrous bulke of this Ingratitude With any size of words Timon.
But if it be a sinne to couet Honor, I am the most offending Soule aliue.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "couet" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
