envy

Example Sentences

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U.S. growth remains the envy of many developed nations.

From The Wall Street Journal

When he returned to office in January 2025, the president promised to return America to a new “Golden Age” in which the country would always be “winning” and the envy of the world.

From Salon

Her daughter, Liza Pauley, recalled Rosalba as a skilled cook whose birria and pozole were the envy of her childhood friends.

From Los Angeles Times

“Here is a woman who has never been particularly jealous of any other woman, realizing that she deeply envies this chair,” the film’s narrator, voiced by Melanie Griffith, says.

From Salon

These derelict streets, wind-swept by the bracing North Sea air, were once the envy of the community, teeming with life.

From BBC