These he slew simply by charging them as they rushed covetously forth to despoil him.
Rolf, seeing him lie abjectly on his face in order to gather up the money, smiled at the sight of a man prostrated by his own gifts, just as if he were seeking covetously to regain what he had craftily yielded up.
Y: If He were to ask you for all of them, and press you, ye would covetously withhold, and He would bring out all your ill-feeling.
That which they have covetously reserved shall be bound as a collar about their neck,c on the day of the resurrection: unto GOD belongeth the inheritance of heaven and earth; and GOD is well acquainted with what ye do.
On either side, the way was plumed and paved with beauties so rare that now, disheartened dwellers in city streets, we covetously con over in memory that roaming walk to school and home again.
But the old Judge's daughter drew the child covetously to her lap.
Philip could not afford to buy a handsome enough gift, and so parted with the bronze candelabra which Farwell had so covetously admired; a sacrifice which did much to break down the hauteur of the bride's recent manner with him.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "covetously" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
