envied

Example Sentences

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She remembers how friends envied her freedom; while they were tied down with dinner duty, their kids’ homework, and college savings, Kant spent her evenings painting and didn’t think twice about going out on weeknights.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 31, 2026

But as people who shared the experience of being “mocked and feared, blamed and banished, envied and imitated,” often allied, sometimes antagonists, theirs is a special case.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 3, 2026

Entrepreneurs envied Cummings’ import success and wanted a piece of the action.

From Slate • May 25, 2025

For years, they got used to being admired - and envied - as the economic powerhouse of Europe.

From BBC • Feb. 20, 2025

Passersby who called in to drink water from the family’s calabashes would say how much they envied that quiet place, and how their own places were so much drier and dustier.

From "The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa" by Alexander Mccall Smith