envy
Example Sentences
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Even taking a boy to chemotherapy sessions may, as the story suggests, spark envy and resentment in the brother who gets left at home.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 9, 2026
No, it was writerly admiration — OK, envy — that stopped me.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 1, 2026
What follows is a fittingly labyrinthine examination of our obsession with the past, and our envy of those who can see it more clearly than we can.
From Salon • May 30, 2026
Ukraine -- at war for more than four years -- has become the envy of some of the world's most powerful militaries in combating long-range drones.
From Barron's • May 15, 2026
Maddie looked away, her eyes welling with tears of envy at the thought of a frozen lonely night in the back of a Fox Moth.
From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein
Vocabulary lists containing envy
"The Gift of the Magi" by O. Henry
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Common Senses: Vid, Vis ("See")
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"The Gift of the Magi"
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