Look at and be like "Damn, I want that"

Usage examples of covet.

In August 1701 he obtained for French traders the asiento, the profitable and coveted monopoly in negro slaves.

The Billabong ball was an event for which an invitation was much coveted.

She coveted every bit of information she could glean, but was suspicious of spies.

It both surprised and annoyed him, for never had he coveted the lives of his brothers.

Somehow, either through luck or sweet talk, Samantha had managed to get one of the coveted high-backed booths near the fire exit.

Some very talented practitioners need only a few minutes of silence to reach that coveted goal.

Carlos Pena had transformed himself from a player Billy Beane coveted more than any other minor leaguer into a player everyone valued more highly than Billy did.

Geordie Land-Surveyor get to be his Second on the most coveted Star-gazing Assignment of the Century?

What they all had in common was the coveted ticket that made them witnesses.

Jealousy-or envy, if you prefer to use that term to describe the coveting of characteristics rather than love-will dog your footsteps as the Furies did poor Orestes.

Between his wrath at the suspicion of an injury, and the prudence enjoined by his abject coveting of her, he consented to be fooled for the sake of vengeance, and something besides.

She will be cured by-and-by of that coveting of everything that I do, feel, think, dream, imagine .

He dragged her through the labyrinths of his penetralia, in his hungry coveting to be loved more and still more, more still, until imagination gave up the ghost, and he talked to her plain hearing like a monster.

But when I had won what I coveted, did I realize that I was going over old ground?

Is it so hard being mistress of a grand castle that you covet a life in the wildwood with only your lute and gittern and pipes to sustain you?