Example sentences for: envy

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

  • They refrain from defacing Mercedes or Lexuses, these being objects of envy, not resentment.

  • In fact, he did: "Gladius Dei," an early story, tells of a strange young man raging in disgust and envy at pornographic art in a gallery window and resolving to bring down a fiery sword on a rotten world.

  • Internet Envy exists in cyberland itself, too, but it is much more straightforward.

  • Stage envy is a well-trod Anglophilic path, which has in the last few years widened into a mostly one-way superhighway stretching from London's West End to the New York Theater District.

  • The United States remains "the envy of the Japanese and Europeans," said Hunt.


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