Wondering how to use Jealous in a sentence? Below are 10+ example sentences from authentic English texts. Including the meaning and synonyms such as covetous or envious.
Jealous meaning
- Suspecting rivalry in love; troubled by worries that one might have been replaced in someone's affections; suspicious of a lover's or spouse's fidelity.
- Protective; zealously guarding; careful in the protection of something (or someone) one has or appreciates, especially one's spouse or lover.
- Envious; feeling resentful or angered toward someone for a perceived advantage or success, material or otherwise.
Synonyms of Jealous
Using Jealous
- The main meaning on this page is: Suspecting rivalry in love; troubled by worries that one might have been replaced in someone's affections; suspicious of a lover's or spouse's fidelity. | Protective; zealously guarding; careful in the protection of something (or someone) one has or appreciates, especially one's spouse or lover. | Envious; feeling resentful or angered toward someone for a perceived advantage or success, material or otherwise.
- Useful related words include: covetous, envious, desirous, wishful.
- In the example corpus, jealous often appears in combinations such as: jealous of, jealous and, be jealous.
Context around Jealous
- Average sentence length in these examples: 22.9 words
- Position in the sentence: 5 start, 9 middle, 6 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Jealous
- In this selection, "jealous" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 22.9 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, long, cain, gets, god, thug and bond stand out and add context to how "jealous" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a jealous thug who and ben jealous is executive. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "jealous" sits close to words such as caste, communicated and corresponds, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with jealous
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
During the conversation, Jealous shared the genesis for his book. (10 words)
Brooklyn was back at the house and she too felt jealous. (11 words)
Eventually he gets so jealous he decides to poison the pet. (11 words)
He assaulted me again in the car on the drive from Raleigh to Wilmington, He went straight to set and he told that he and I made out the whole time, and it was fun, and he was trying to make her jealous. (43 words)
Content creator and mum-of-two Marie Dee explained that the girl from HR always comes at her for her tight dresses, but she claimed they’re just jealous because she is popular and looks so good. (37 words)
Clues were also dropped in a recent trailer for the storyline, leading to viewers guessing that Jack could even be killed by his jealous wife) after his tryst with Stacey Slater (Lacey Turner). (33 words)
Example sentences (20)
He was jealous of Dante for so long – jealous of Dante’s relationship with Beatrice.
Everyone knows the biblical stories of the jealous God and the first murder — by Cain, jealous of the favor God showed his brother, Abel.
Misty often gets jealous when other girls flirt with Ash, and, while Ash never expresses his feelings, he does get jealous when other guys flirt with Misty.
A JEALOUS thug who attacked his partner was jailed today for 27 months.
A letter would be released to the public in which a jealous Bond kills a Russian spy that he fell in love with, then, commits suicide.
Although she was initially jealous of Guts because Griffith wished to recruit him, the more she came to know him, the more she became attracted to him, and vice versa.
A man whose daughter was murdered by a jealous former boyfriend has urged victims of stalking in Northern Ireland to come forward to police.
Armstrong gunned down the 25-year-old Wilson in a jealous rage.
At one Monday meeting, one of my colleagues mentioned that she was working from a workstation and I became jealous.
Ben Jealous is executive director of the Sierra Club, the oldest and most influential grassroots environmental organization in the country.
Brooklyn was back at the house and she too felt jealous.
But characters must grow, and this deserves to have the kinds of gadgets even would be jealous of.
Clues were also dropped in a recent trailer for the storyline, leading to viewers guessing that Jack could even be killed by his jealous wife) after his tryst with Stacey Slater (Lacey Turner).
Content creator and mum-of-two Marie Dee explained that the girl from HR always comes at her for her tight dresses, but she claimed they’re just jealous because she is popular and looks so good.
During the conversation, Jealous shared the genesis for his book.
Eventually he gets so jealous he decides to poison the pet.
Fans of teams from across the Premier League have given their thoughts on the news, with the majority overwhelmingly jealous about being able to pull of such a deal.
Fireboy’s voice and his performance of chart-topping hits, like "Jealous" and "Vibration", had the crowd singing along and dancing the night away.
Gazing out the window at her academic office job, found herself jealous of the landscapers who were planting flowers along the sidewalk, and knew she had to make a career change.
He assaulted me again in the car on the drive from Raleigh to Wilmington, He went straight to set and he told that he and I made out the whole time, and it was fun, and he was trying to make her jealous.
Common combinations with jealous
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- jealous of 54×
- jealous and 16×
- be jealous 14×
- are jealous 11×
- was jealous 10×
- jealous rage 9×
- and jealous 8×
- her jealous 6×
- being jealous 6×
- jealous that 6×