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Example sentences for "covetable"

Lexicographically close words:
covertly; coverts; coverture; coves; covet; coveted; coveteth; coveting; covetise; covetous
  1. Also in the patrician families of the field, the young people know what they are doing, and marry a neighbouring estate, or a covetable title, with some conception of the responsibilities they undertake.

  2. All its aristocratic magnificence is fled; but the antiquary and the man of curious research console themselves on its possessing treasures of a more substantial and covetable kind.

  3. We of the human race allow ourselves to be tempted by covetable things often enough; but, strange as it is, there seems to be more difficulty in teaching mankind to resist temptation than there is in teaching dogs to do so.

  4. Even the poor are happy in comparison with us, and poverty is more covetable than such riches.

  5. Adjacent to the old kitchen was abundant cellarage for the stowing of many and diverse covetable things of the trading first lord's importation.

  6. He saw this covetable being now indifferent to him, out of his power to possess, likely soon to pass into the possession of another.

  7. The work has become mere printed paper; but it is perhaps not less covetable as a triumph of bibliopegistic art, than as a memorial of the distinguished or interesting personages through whose hands it has passed to our own.


  8. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "covetable" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.