envied in English

verb
1
desire to have a quality, possession, or other desirable attribute belonging to (someone else).
he envied people who did not have to work on weekends
synonyms:be envious ofbe jealous ofbegrudgebe resentful of
verb

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Below are sample sentences containing the word "envied" from the English Dictionary. We can refer to these sentence patterns for sentences in case of finding sample sentences with the word "envied", or refer to the context using the word "envied" in the English Dictionary.

1. All three envied someone else.

2. He envied Caroline her peace.

3. She has always envied my success.

4. Better be envied than pitied.

5. She secretly admired and envied him.

6. 16 She secretly admired and envied him.

7. He envied your trip to Greece.

8. I might be envied by a king,

9. I have no reason to be envied.

10. He envied Rosalind her youth and strength.

11. I have always envied your good luck.

12. He ruefully admitted that he envied her.

13. Every passer-by envied them two very much .

14. I envied her. She looked so calm and capable.

15. Wisdom is more to be envied than riches. 

16. 12 I secretly envied her for her good looks.

17. The Philistines persecuted Isaac because they envied his growing prosperity.

18. When I was little, I envied kids with parents.

19. Anita envied her sister's amorality and contempt for public opinion.

20. Not that a one of them envied his freedom, consciously.

21. Everyone in the neighborhood envied Bob Green's expensive new luxury car.

22. Soon after, at a funeral, Young said, he envied the corpse.

23. Her luxurious lifestyle and personal ostentation were both hated and envied.

24. Our artists had a freedom which the Soviet nonconformists envied with incredulity.

25. He envied her-she seemed to have everything she could possibly want.

26. I envied him his freedom to do or say what he wanted.

27. I envied that young my youth, carefree, unencumbered , non - trouble - free brain.

28. Solving solitaire centres I have always envied John and Barbara's solitaire board.

29. 5 Her luxurious lifestyle and personal ostentation were both hated and envied.

30. She envied her being so fleet and lithe and able to climb walls.

31. He envied the affection that flowed between the boy and the old man.

32. Human spaceflight gains $ 2 billion , but its situation is hardly to be envied either.

33. 19 I was merciless with myself, but the only thing I envied Dennis was his money.

34. Stephen envied the innocence still visible beneath the strain that showed in Weir's open features.

35. 28 One of their sons, whom I particularly envied for his heroic biceps, was named Eleven.

36. He knew the words to every song, and he had a loud catchy voice Norm envied.

37. I always admired him for his tenacity of purpose and dedication - and envied his super brain-power.

38. 22 He knew the words to every song, and he had a loud catchy voice Norm envied.

39. Andrew Carnegie: ‘As we drove to the station I was remarking how I envied him his wealth.

40. The only witnesses had been Sarah's stepmother, and an ecclesiastic colleague who envied him his good fortune.

41. Ward envied them their ignorance of the fate that had befallen the city they had helped found.

42. I know, you even refused a necklace that would be envied by any woman, sit here next to me.

43. Joseph in his much envied coat of many colours, with his brothers, while Pharaoh and the guards look on.

44. You've always been very close to them - in fact, it's one of the things I envied about you.

45. Right then, I really envied the professional boxers, with their rules and regulations and watchful doctors on hand.

46. Synonyms for Begrudged include envied, resented, resent, grudged, coveted, pinched, stinted, ate your heart out, eaten your heart out and minded

47. On the one hand, there were the comforts and luxuries of the Roman way of life, regarded by many as something to be envied.

48. The ancient Egyptians were skilled builders; using only simple but effective tools and sighting instruments, architects could build large stone structures with great accuracy and precision that is still envied today.

49. Long a tool of social power for women, Coquettishness was slowly adapted by men, particularly the great seducers of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries who envied the power of such women

50. The quality of being correct 1921, Lytton Strachey, Queen Victoria‎[1]: Leopold himself must have envied such perfect Correctitude; but what may be admirable in an elderly statesman is alarming in a maiden of nineteen