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"Jealous" in a Sentence (27 examples)
He was sick of being vilified all the time by people who were jealous of his ability.
The other girls are jealous of Lily because she is extremely pretty.
Everybody was jealous of my success.
Mr Brown is jealous of his colleague's success.
I suppose I felt a little jealous.
Chris recognized the boy from his math class and became very jealous.
I'm jealous that you have a good boss.
I myself was not conscious of it, but I may have been jealous of his success.
A jealous person gets a feeling of contentment by behaving like a dog in the manger even with his friends.
You must not be jealous of others' success.
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She gave him a jealous look.
She stopped, and laid her hand upon his golden head, and then bent down and kissed his brow with a chastened abandonment of tenderness that would have been beautiful to behold had not the sight cut me to the heart - for I was jealous!
Thou ſhalt not bow downe thy ſelfe to them, nor ſerue them: For I the Lord thy God am a iealous God, viſiting the iniquitie of the fathers vpon the children, vnto the thirde and fourth generation of them that hate me:
Soft Simon had reduced himself to the lowest class of Stalkos, or walking gentlemen, as they are termed; men who have nothing to do, and no fortune to support them, but who style themselves esquire; and who […] are jealous of that title, and of their claims to family antiquity.
be jealous of someone/something
He was jealous of his friend’s success.
I'm jealous because I'm single.
I am jealous of everything whose beauty does not die.
The neighbouring towns were jealous of this honourable supremacy.
I began my fence or wall; which, being still jealous of my being attacked by somebody, I resolved to make very thick and strong.
At length […] the Duke demanded to know of Durward who his guide was, […] and wherefore he had been led to entertain suspicion of him. To the first of these questions Quentin Durward answered by naming Hayraddin Maugrabin, the Bohemian; […] and in reply to the third point he mentioned what had happened in the Franciscan convent near Namur, how the Bohemian had been expelled from the holy house, and how, jealous of his behaviour, he had dogged him to a rendezvous with one of William de la Marck's lanzknechts, where he overheard them arrange a plan for surprising the ladies who were under his protection.
If I go back, he starts his jealousing again. Drinking and jealousing.
Jealousing can take place: You may notice some of your fellow female co-workers that can be jealousing you.
But another part of me is jealousing because Xifeng is looking at Ify like she is special, almost like she is wanting to call her daughter, and I am wanting Xifeng all to myself.
[…] where the victim of an assault had been 'jealousing' the offender about her sister.
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