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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?"
Cause for most envy: 34-year-old Michael Dell ranks sixth with $16.
It's this kind of pathological attention to detail that makes American industry the envy of the more materialistic parts of the world, and "News Quiz" such a pleasure to work on.
The article reports that "hundreds of homeless shelters across the country have installed computer labs that would be the envy of most high schools."
The cover--a reference to the omnipresent Internet/Nasdaq slow-mo capitalist money shot that's lasted four years--doesn't hint at any sort of destabilizing class conflict, but rather phrases it in terms of envy alone.