JEALOUS in a Sentence
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110 example sentences for JEALOUS, such as:
1. You're not making me jealous.
2. There is no reason to be jealous of me.
3. I could almost imagine you were jealous.
4. I'd be ashamed to admit feeling jealous.
5. You are jealous of something you can't understand.
2. There is no reason to be jealous of me.
3. I could almost imagine you were jealous.
4. I'd be ashamed to admit feeling jealous.
5. You are jealous of something you can't understand.
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Meanings and Examples of JEALOUS
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jealous
a. suspicious or unduly suspicious or fearful of being displaced by a rival
a. showing extreme cupidity; painfully desirous of another's advantages
Classic Sentence: (98 in 7 pages)
1 All that bothers me is that some one of these days you're both going to get lickered up and jealous of each other about that two-faced, little, green-eyed baggage, and you'll shoot each other.
2 They only knew, as surely as they knew there was a just and jealous God in Heaven, that Lee was miraculous and the Army of Virginia invincible.
3 And Scarlett was too happy to resent this, too glad to be jealous.
4 Here she had danced and dined and flirted and here she had watched with a jealous, hurting heart how Melanie smiled up at Ashley.
5 Scarlett had neither the time nor the impulse to pet him but it made her jealous to see Melanie do it.
6 The sight of that happy possessive gesture had aroused in Scarlett all the jealous animosity which had slumbered during the months when she had thought Ashley probably dead.
7 Frequently he was out of town on those mysterious trips to New Orleans which he never explained but which she felt sure, in a faintly jealous way, were connected with a woman--or women.
8 You are jealous of something you can't understand.
9 All this has happened because people are jealous of you, because you are so smart and successful.
10 She's always been jealous because I loved you best, dear.
11 Carol assured herself, "Whatever faults I may have, I certainly couldn't ever be jealous."
12 I was jealous of Tony's admiration for Charley Harling.
13 I was thinking about Antonia and her children; about Anna's solicitude for her, Ambrosch's grave affection, Leo's jealous, animal little love.
14 Maybe he's sorry to have you go, and maybe he's jealous.
15 "Perhaps I feared to make Alphonse jealous," she interjoined, with excessive naivete.
Example Sentence:
1 I'd be ashamed to admit feeling jealous.
2 Danny could be very jealous and possessive about me.
3 You're not making me jealous.
4 An honorable Chinese citizen should be jealous of his own rights.
5 I could almost imagine you were jealous.
6 I'll be so jealous if you manage to wangle an invitation to his house.
7 Being neither jealous nor greedy, being without desires, and remaining the same under all circumstances, this is nobility.
8 The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves.
9 There is no reason to be jealous of me.
10 Don't be jealous that people have done better than you.
11 I think they're jealous, they wish they could share in that freedom but failed.
12 We disregarded her invidious remarks because we realized how jealous she was.