How to pronounce covet

Usage examples

• The prize will be a coveted lunchtime seat near the fountain in high school.
• "I covet nothing," said he in the same light way.
• "I covet nothing," said he in the same light way.
• He was initially the club's premier striker, holding the coveted number nine shirt.
• This is one of the most coveted titles in English club cricket.
• Crassus assiduously befriended Licinia, a Vestal Virgin, whose valuable property he coveted.
• His heritage and his succession have attracted the covetous appetites.
• Among the tracks is the instrumental "Destroyer", previously coveted by bootleg collectors.
• The former community was, he says, sorely oppressed by the covetous Cistercians.