envious造句

I'm envious of your progress in English.

But there are far better reasons to be envious.

It is the appalled, envious laughter of knowledge at innocence.

But when my wond'ring eyes and envious heart

The silence of the envious is too noisy.

In two previous posts, I described his envious workday.

Sharon was envious of the Brightness of Mary's Blond hair and the whiteness of her skin.

Then the volunteer was asked to give time-consuming advice to a potentially envious person.

Men of noble birth, are noted to be envious towards new men, when they rise.

Politicians all too often pander to the envious tendencies among the electorate.

There are people who are envious of us when we do well and show no sympathy when we are down.

Our heroes may well motivate us, then, as long as we don't just admire them but are benignly envious.

Have you ever been envious of other people who had that flashy car, nice big house or attractive partner?

They found that only benignly envious people were willing to pay more for products that they coveted.

"For the first time in history, the Iranians are envious of the Arabs," said one activist, referring to Persians' historic sense of superiority to Arab countries.

In China, air-conditioners are a status symbol, so Panasonic’s are big and colourful enough to catch the neighbours’ envious eyes.

I wasn't jealous - I'd never want to deprive anyone of their sleep - but I was definitely envious. How on earth did he do it?

Then had her envious heart rest, at least such rest as a heart full of envy and malice ever can have.

Or is he inclined to be a fibber, to fits of rage, to be a control freak, to be envious of you, to be secretive?

The clerks and ryots, however, seemed duly impressed, and likewise envious, as though deploring their parents' omission to endow them with so splendid a means of appealing to the Zamindar.

On the other hand, some people are so envious that they are angry when anyone does well, and some people are so spiteful that they delight in other people's misfortunes.

She had almost all the honors of the quadrille, and if she were envious of the Count of San-Felice's daughter, we will not undertake to say that Carmela was not jealous of her.