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Example sentences for: envy

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Rodriguez's pledge to meet the president's challenge to "make our schools the envy of the world" is followed by a question that implies far more than it says: "Are you with me?"
But the editorial went on to laud the new Germany as "a democracy which has nothing to envy in its neighbors and even, in many areas, is an example to them."
Nevertheless, the tiara looked nothing at all like the Miss America crown, and I must admit I felt a stab of envy.
On the other hand, we're also supposed to envy her, because she violates the restraints we've imposed on ourselves.
And I used to envy people who kept all the balls in the air.