coveting

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• Monica BurtonFlavored ices and frozen desserts have been coveted for thousands of years, across many cultures, by people who have gone to great lengths to procure them.

• My pick this year is that Jim Walmsley is finally going to give us the win that we have so desperately coveted over the last 15 or so years.

• Any woman who pursues what she covets can be seen as selfish or unrelatable.

• Read more on OZYThe notion of home and space has perhaps never been as coveted as it is right now.

• The sheer utility of the design now struck me as elegant, and I began to covet them, before finally acquiring a Rivendell Platypus.

• The U.S. needs influence with credible actors on the ground more than those groups covet small bits of U.S. assistance.

• Mothers-to-be covet it like a Birkin bag, and celebrity moms are known to splurge on it.

• The label has gained an especially impressive footing in markets that covet its strong American appeal.

• I ask if he thinks Christie should run for president, an office that McGreevey himself was once widely assumed to covet.

• They are not merely trying to stir up desire—to covet, to shop, to consume.

• And latterly eyes had been turned to Vienna, where dwelt Prince Alix, who was known to covet the throne.

• The art of breaking the tenth commandment—thou shalt not covet they neighbor's wife—has reached its highest perfection in France.

• The next thought was the impression that, no matter how many might covet it, it was exhaustless, and would last forever.

• Unpleasant and monotonous things, which we claim make our own work unbearable, we ignore in occupations which we covet or admire.