Sentence examples for coveted possession from inspiring English sources

(Five hundred years ago, the "horn" was a coveted possession).

Roots are shallow, and the most coveted possession is one of the 5,000 or so government-built R.D.P. houses — two bedrooms, a living room, a bathroom and a kitchen — connected to utilities.

At the end of the tour, the guides usually hand out souvenir "miner's certificates," replicas of the actual state certificates that licensed miners to use explosives and were a coal miner's most coveted possession.

If Palin remains a sideline figure in the 2012 elections, her eventual endorsement, which she has said she intends to give, will no doubt be a coveted possession.

As a committed environmentalist, I hate to admit I worshipped that car; it was a coveted possession by my friends too who were lumbering around town in their parents' Volvos and station wagons.

Maybe there is a shared chore to accomplish, or a coveted possession to be shared.

He was possessed, lacking the filter of self-possession coveted by most dancers.

In the 1950s, having the Encyclopaedia Britannica on the bookshelf was akin to a station wagon in the garage or a black-and-white Zenith in the den, a possession coveted for its usefulness and as a goalpost for an aspirational middle class.

When people value and covet their possessions, they are willing to invest in them and take care of them.

It made a "false idol" of the federal government, encouraged Americans to covet their neighbors' possessions, stole from the wealthy and, ultimately, bore false witness by promising what it could never deliver.

This goes horribly wrong when he comes into possession of a magical rock said to hail from Black London and coveted by all manner of nasty villains.