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Example sentences for: envious

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They were all envious, or pretended to be, which was just as gratifying.
He was apparently so envious of Washington that he spent a large part of his address spelling out his own excellent qualifications for the job.)
Macbeth harps on this mystery after the witches vanish, muttering to Banquo in a tone of envious wonderment, “Your children shall be kings.”
Or whether those less fortunate are envious of his horsepower.
Mainichi Shimbun speculated that jealousy might have been a motive for groups within Tajikistan or other neighboring countries envious of Japan's generous aid program to Kyrgyzstan.