Example sentences for: envy

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

  • Antler Envy You know it must be holiday season in Tabloidland when all those dirty secrets about Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer start to surface.

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

  • Well, there's superpower envy, of course, but also, the Post suggests, Russia would like Iraq to be in a position to pay back some of the millions it still owes from years of military sponsorship, and Moscow is also interested in developing some of Iraq's oil resources.

  • 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?"

  • Penis envy is spreading.


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