Example sentences for: enviable

How can you use “enviable” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • How could a wealthy, productive, sophisticated country have gone from enviable growth in the 1980s to stagnation in the '90s, and now be slipping into a downward spiral of recession and deflation?

  • The cover story by Michael Lewis relives the enviable rise--and precipitous fall--of Long-Term Capital.

  • Poland has an enviable cinematic tradition and has produced great film directors who’ve gone on to international success, including Krzysztof Kie§lowski, Andrzej Wajda, and Roman Polanski.

  • I know quite a few academics who have nice houses, two cars, and enviable working conditions, yet are disappointed and bitter men--because they have never received an offer from Harvard and will probably not get a Nobel Prize.

  • The town has an enviable collection of Manueline buildings and attracts hordes of visitors during the spring to see flowering almond blossoms in the local orchards.


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