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Example sentences for: envious

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Macbeth harps on this mystery after the witches vanish, muttering to Banquo in a tone of envious wonderment, “Your children shall be kings.”
The Post reports that Leekpai "won big applause" from the Thai public and "made his enemies envious."
"Hitchcock would have been intrigued, and maybe envious," says the Wall Street Journal 's Joe Morgenstern.
Edwards' book delights in quoting envious encomia from the enemy camp.
Matisse, envious of Picasso's success, tried to ignore him until the 1930s when he needed Picasso's influence to bring himself out of an artistic funk.