Sentence examples for coveted objects from inspiring English sources

A drawing by Picasso was also one of the night's most coveted objects.

A new dog or puppy signifies a shift in the hierarchy, divided attention and confrontation over coveted objects and sacred sleeping quarters.

He hoped that if he presented Shaw's work amid more coveted objects people would "look at him with a fresh eye".

The publication of "Job" had turned into a literary experience reminiscent of a chaotic Singerian universe — where coveted objects are misplaced, or purposely hidden by imps, only to reappear just before it's too late.

With the Getty deal in hand, the Italian culture ministry has announced that it is withdrawing as a civil party in the case against True; to some, this suggests that the lawsuit was less about curatorial misdeeds than about coveted objects.

"Sometimes coveted objects are worth what people are willing to pay for, not necessarily what the algorithm says they are worth," paidContent's Tom Krazit wrote last week.

To be valuable to the people who covet them, objects like these require an "accompanying narrative furnished by its possessor in order to fill in that which is missing and to allow the fragment to reflect the event or experience of which it is a part".

They seem both heavily sedated and restless -- human objects to be coveted who are themselves quite covetous, when they can muster the energy.

Hoping that a new generation of design addicts will covet the vintage objects they see in the exhibition, the company is putting back into production a small number of these pieces.

Still, there are books that I covet, as pure objects of desire, simply because they're beautiful; books that I'd never buy for myself, because they feel like guilty pleasures; books that I want not just to read but to touch — sorry, Kindle — fondle, squeeze.

Maybe you guys don't covet design-y objects the way I do, but you must admit that these lamps from Cerno are striking.