I coveted my brothers shoes and was punished by doing chores for taking them without asking.
to covet another's property.
There are plenty of ways you could use the word covet in a sentence. You could advise someone not to covet their neighbor for example.
The Bible teaches us not to covet our neighbours wife, which is lamentable.
He vowed to punish Frank.
Please don't punish me with another pun. It is the court's decision of just how to punish the perpetrators of this heinous act of vandalism.
Covet is used when you really really really really want something that usually is cherished by someone else. usually something you keep to yourself ie/ I covet my sister's jewel encrusted music box. or I secretly covet the first place trophy. "Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife"
The teacher used mild admonishment to punish the misbehaving student.
Mya's little sister, Keeko, coveted me into getting her a Wii Pony, but I told her there was no such thing.
The vociferation over the alleged abuse of the kitten caused the council to punish the culprit.
They went to the movies together.
I think the sentence referred to in this question is "All you could do . . . value of 60p." Here, the word "do" is a kind of slang for "prosecute" or "punish". The word "all" stands for "the most", or "the only". "do" stands for "prosecute" or "punish". So it means "The most you could punish them for would be for stealing 60p worth of electricity".
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